As part of Renew Adelaide‘s Art in the City project in the former Suzuki showroom on Waymouth St, Wonderland is coming to town.

The Alice-inspired immersive dance and theatre performance will be staged by dance collective Human Arts Movement. As well as the seven dancers, Yasmin Gurreeboo will direct five actors to help to bring the space to life.

Tobiah Booth-Remmers, dancer and choreographer, tells Rip It Up that the performance was inspired both by UK creative theatre troupe Punchdrunk. He won’t give too much away, but shares, “It’s going to take the audience firstly into the Queen’s Court – that much we know – and from then on, the audience is led on a little trail that passes through a whole lot of events and situations to meet the characters and to discover what’s happening in that world. Some of it is dance phrases and there are other parts that are character-based – which is the actors – so it’s kind of like a walk-through performance world.”

Booth-Remmers received the call from Renew Adelaide just over a month ago, saying that there was a big warehouse space available. Although they had the ideas, trying to pull together rehearsal time and material for the show has been “quite challenging”, but Booth-Remmers sounds relieved when he says they’re almost there.

The next challenge is having enough sets and props to fill the vast area.

“It’s such a big space, so to fill it out and to make it feel like this world you’re walking in to, you need a lot of stuff.”

Last tickets to these one-off Wonderland performances are available through TryBooking.

Down the Rabbit Hole

Adelaide is about to get thoroughly Lewis Carolled – Wonderland wraps up in December and will be followed by Follow The White Rabbit, an Espionage Gallery X Splash Adelaide event.

Alice In Wonderland is the literary gift that never stops giving, and Booth-Remmers explains that it is this wealth of odd material in the story that inspires so much creativity.

“For us, Alice in Wonderland offers all this really interesting material straight away. It’s written for a child, but it’s got this really weird illogical nature to it, and, immediately, you can interpret it in a dark kind of way or in a dreamy kind of way.”

What

Wonderland

Where

222-230 Waymouth Street, Adelaide

When

December 9 to 12

Tickets

TryBooking