Family Theatre: 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' performed by Quantum Theatre

Date: Wednesday 5 August

Time: Gates open at 5.30. Performance begins at 6.00. Duration approximately 2 hours

Price: Adults: £12.00, Children: £9.00, Family Ticket (2 adults & 2 children): £35.00

Venue: Staged outdoors on the North Front

Booking: Please phone 01296 653226, Mon-Fri, 10.00-4.00

Additional Info: Please bring something to sit on and be prepared for all weather conditions. Light refreshments will be available from the Coffee Bar.

The story of Through the Looking-Glass is a real family favourite, following Alice's fantastical adventures in the strange world she enters through the mirror above her drawing-room fireplace.

What she finds there is a world laid out in the form of a giant chess board and before long Alice finds herself entering the game as a white pawn. The story follows her travels across the board until she is crowned queen at the eighth square and along the way she encounters some of Carroll's most memorable and enduring characters, among them Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Walrus and the Carpenter, The Lion and the Unicorn, and the Jabberwock. The piece is also filled with many fine nonsense poems and songs which are still quoted from today.

This is a brand new adaptation by Michael Whitmore, faithfully charting the fabulous, wonderful and rather perplexing world created by the great Lewis Carroll and retaining the particularly British humour and quirkiness we've all come to hold dear in these classic tales: truly a show for all the family.

For more information on the Quantum Theatre visit their website www.quantumtheatre.co.uk