To celebrate the 10th World Book Day, pupils at Forefield Junior School were treated to an exceptional performance based on the classic tale by Lewis Carroll:

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There!

For this performance set in the strange, surreal, and back-to-front world through the looking glass, the Manactco theatre group took the idea of 'Theatre-in-the-Round' and turned it on its head. Instead of the action taking place on a central stage with the audience sitting all around, the audience of children sat in the centre while the action took place all around them.

Using a small variety of props, a few changes of costume, the actors relied heavily on their skills of storytelling to create an incredible dreamworld in the imaginations of their audience. During this fantastic voyage, we were introduced to some wierd and wonderful characters including:

The staff and children thoroughly enjoyed the performances. Manactco portrayed the strange nature of the story perfectly, leaving us feeling rather like Alice after reading the tale of the Jabberwocky:

"It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but it's rather hard to understand! Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!"