Two blue rabbit-eared performers lean close around a still young woman, their faces animated against a dark background.

The Mack Theatre, Mountview2024

Alice by Heart

The Production

Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts’ double-cast July 2024 production of Alice by Heart was staged at The Mack Theatre with its MA Performance – Musical Theatre students. Directed by Kate Budgen, the production reframed the Wonderland story through the world of the London Blitz.

50 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Kate Budgen
Musical Director: Ellen Campbell
Choreographer: Claira Vaughan
Lighting Design: Jack Goodwin
Set & Costume Design: PJ McEvoy
Commissioned by: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Photography: Steve Gregson

An empty Underground-station stage set sits under three shafts of white light and haze.

A large blue sheet is stretched across the stage like a wave while a performer stands elevated in a white spotlight.

A young woman in school uniform holds a small blue book and a gas mask while looking upward in warm stage light.

Performers lie and sit across the stage as a young woman stands in a bright cone of light against blue haze.

Two performers sit closely on a bench beside pale hospital screens, with others visible in a lit alcove behind them.

A group in storybook-like costumes clusters in a tilted composition, with two performers posing at the centre under smoky light.

A performer watches a large backlit sheet where a shadow figure appears with outstretched arms.

A full ensemble forms a symmetrical tableau beneath rows of warm and cool spotlights and heavy haze.

A young woman and a man stand in the centre entrance while costumed performers raise papers and arms around them.

A young woman in blue faces a tightly packed group reaching toward her with red flowers.

A line of blue rabbit-eared performers reaches toward a young woman standing on a box under blue and magenta light.

A man and a young woman stand close together as she blows bubbles in blue-purple light.

Rabbit-eared performers huddle protectively around a young woman at centre stage between glowing magenta vertical lights.

A couple stand face to face on a raised platform while blue-costumed performers cluster below them.

A young woman raises a small object high while a man in white stands elevated beside her and others look up through haze.

Couples dance across the stage under saturated pink, yellow and blue beams, with two figures above the set.

Two performers press red-gloved hands together in an intimate close-up against a dark red-lit background.

A wide dance tableau fills the stage in bright magenta and yellow light, with couples and ensemble gestures spread across the set.

A performer in a red dress and crown strides forward draped in a Union Jack flag.

A crowned performer in a Union Jack costume confronts a seated young woman through smoky blue light.

The stage is washed in deep red as performers crouch and stand in a stark, ritual-like formation.

A performer lies hidden beneath a bench, peering out from under the tabletop in a low, comic stage moment.

A performer in a bright red suit stands over bodies on the floor, pointing outward through red haze.

A man in white and a young woman in blue sit side by side on a bench, facing each other with gentle attention.

A performer in a green animal-like hood holds a microphone close in a tight, characterful portrait.

Several performers peer from between orange shelving levels as if crammed into a low compartment.

A large group occupies two levels of orange shelving, with performers leaning, sitting and looking outward.

A lone performer in red stands in a narrow spotlight on a dark stage while a young woman watches from the side.

Performers in white coats and red-green light hold long poles in a dense, formal tableau.

Four performers in white coats gather closely around crossing red poles under intense red and green lighting.

In near darkness, one figure slumps over the top of a platform while a goggled face glows from a small opening below.

A young man stands in a blue shaft of smoke facing a kneeling young woman in blue.

A performer in a brown furry costume and goggles exhales into blue light in a close portrait.

A group in khaki uniforms lift helmets and faces upward in a lively ensemble composition.

A young woman in blue is pressed low at the front by a crowd of khaki-clad performers holding helmets.

A young woman and a man in white sit apart on the floor beneath strong diagonal beams of light.

A young woman smiles warmly at a seated man in white in an intimate blue-lit close composition.

Two crowned figures appear high above the Wonderland sign in a strong blue wash and single overhead beam.

A crowned performer in a red dress leans forward, laughing or shouting toward a young woman in blue.

A woman in a dark dress and red gloves stands on a platform while two performers sit below in smoky coloured light.

The ensemble spreads across the stage in energetic poses around a central performer under blue and white beams.

Two performers in crowns embrace tensely in saturated blue and pink light.

A young woman stands centre stage with arms thrown wide as the ensemble reaches and poses around her.

Silhouetted figures move in a dark blue stage picture, framed by glowing side lights and a lit archway.

A young woman sits alone on a bench amid scattered papers under a cool, isolated stage light.

A wide stage picture shows a young woman and a man separated in a snowy-looking space under bright white beams.

A man in white and a young woman in blue sit holding hands on a bench beneath a canopy of white haze.

A warm ensemble scene gathers seated and standing performers around a young woman in blue near the front of the stage.

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