Colyer-Fergusson Gallery

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Alongside the performances, Colyer-Fergusson Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of some of the original illustrations, allowing visitors the chance almost to walk through the pages of the book.

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Created by illustrator and cartoonist, Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), the characters which populate Carroll’s tale found perfect visualisation in Tenniel’s illustrations; the anxious obsession with time-keeping of the White Rabbit; Alice’s fierce expression at the Hatter’s Tea Party on being offered wine, only to find none is present; the officious Queen of Hearts shrieking “Off with her head!”; the nervous card-gardeners apprehensively gazing at the wrongly-coloured rose-trees; each is captured with imaginative flair by Tenniel’s craft.

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The production at Kent features some of Tenniel’s illustrations projected onto the stage above the performers, evoking the original atmosphere of the book brought so vividly to life by Tenniel’s quirky, characterful images.

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The exhibition opens on Monday 13 January and runs until Friday 28 February, and then from Monday 4 May through until August.

Admission is free, and there is disabled access. 

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