ALICE IN A
A mysterious performance written in 2006 

Premiere, Arenberg Schouwburg Antwerpen December 2006

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Text from Literary magazine Deus Ex Machina about ALICE in A, December 2006

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" In New York, in the middle of Central Park, there is a bronze statue, 'Alice in Wonderland'. Alice sits on a toadstool, and around her troops of wondrous figures: The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The Cheshire Cat, The White Rabbit. The Antwerp actress Noémi Schlosser looks at it, and when she turns around she sees the New York skyline towering in the distance above the green backdrop. Trees and concrete. Two worlds in harmony and in conflict, at the same time. The resting point of the statue, the city park, and the greenery, while at the same time a hectic, Kafkaesque jungle remains palpable, an incessant jumble of people on their way to the office or home. It's like there's a tunnel between the two worlds, Alice's rabbit hole, and you can never be quite sure which side you're on. 

In Tokyo, sometime later, Noémi experiences a land of extremes and contradictions that seem to go hand in hand and typify Japanese society. The residents of overcrowded Tokyo must adhere to disciplinary rules to maintain some form of order. A heavy pressure is felt everywhere: hard working hours in soulless offices, rules that must be followed without questioning them. Tokyo: A New Version of Kafka's Prague. Noémi Schlosser feels surprised, intimidated and, above all, an outsider. How do you relate to an unknown, inscrutable society? Do you have to change under the influence of this? And if so, how? "

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Noémi Schlosser is half British and half Czech, with a Prague background. After her studies at the Antwerp theater academy with Dora van der Groen and Ivo van Hove, she founded the theater company Salomee Speelt which is strongly inspired by Russian constructivism and Russian avant-garde film. Image, music, montages, visual installations, and text are played off against each other in such a way that the viewer is forced to actively participate in the thinking process and form their own interpretation. In Alice in A, Noémi Schlosser dynamically merges experiences, observations, and emotions that came to the fore in New York, Tokyo and Prague. Moreover, they are subtly linked to three abstracts, corresponding worlds: the paper worlds created by Lewis Caroll, Haruki Murakami, and Franz Kafka. “

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Written and conceptualized together with Camil Reynders

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The play is available upon request in Flemish only, contact dramacoach.noemi@gmail.com

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