Beyond the Looking Glass
UCL Union Balls! Society in association with UCL Union Stage Crew society, UCL Union Bongos and Ethnic Music Society, and the UCL Union Dance Society present
Balls! for Balls: Beyond the Looking Glass
An amateur production.
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:’
After two sell out years at the UCL Union Garage theatre, Balls! UCL Union’s juggling society is for the first time bringing their amazing Balls! for Balls* show to the Bloomsbury! A visually thrilling combination of juggling, object manipulation and dance combined with drama and live music written especially for the show, Balls! for Balls: Beyond the Looking Glass promises to be a truly unique and exciting experience.
‘All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.’
Based on the classic children’s tales ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass’, Beyond the Looking Glass takes a glimpse into the magical world of imagination, where chess pieces and playing cards come to life, where oysters dance, Mock Turtles sing and the Mad Hatter juggles!
‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!’
‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’ A new take on Lewis Carroll’s delightful nonsense sees these well-known characters given a Balls! spin. A rabbit on a unicycle, an epic battle between a staff spinning unicorn and a lion armed with poi, and the comedy antics of a hooping Tweedledum and Tweedledee!
‘Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
So join us as we follow Alice down the rabbit hole on her fantastic adventures through Wonderland and see how she meets the Cheshire Cat, Queen of Hearts and all the other beloved characters in this wonderfully enchanting circus styled adaptation of one of the most memorable tales ever written. For ‘Everybody has won, and all must have prizes…’
And this deloyably cheasant stage,
Of surrircus styled fun and what not,
Will no doubt be, the tassip of the town,
And to miss, will be to miss a lot.
So coijon us down the white rabbit’s hole,
But only if the nutage you’ve got;
To see the Cheshire, Tweedle Dum and Dee
All frollance and skipance and parot.
Tickets £7, Concessions £5
* So named as the proceeds go to the Orchid Cancer Appeal, a charity ‘dedicated to fund research into diagnosis, prevention and treatment of testicular, prostate and penile cancer and to increase public awareness of these previously neglected diseases.’ Over the last two years, Balls! for Balls has raised around £1500 for Orchid.
