Y main regret on hearing a "free adaptation" of Alice in Wonderland from 4YA recently was not that it had presented so little, but so much. In one hour we were hurtled through episodes from both Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass. As a result, much had to be cut. The Dormouse hardly began his brief story, the Mock Turtle was cut off after the first of his puns. Yet this production had some good moments — Jabberwocky, for instance, was beautifully done, and the White Knight’s scene, delivered in the wellknown tones of Jimmy Edwards, was pure Carroll with its delightfully inconsequential logic. (Though I doubt if the Knight would have commented after his song, "A pretty ditty," and suspect that here for a moment, Edwards confused his programmes.) But if this production had good moments, it also had some very bad ones, notably at the beginning and the end, in the syrupy ballad--especially composed for the occasion-which was dreary, sentimental and totally untelated to Carroll’s wit.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 662, 14 March 1952, Page 12
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