ALICE IN WONDERLAND

NARRATOR: It was a hot day in the forest, and Alice, a little and happy girl, started getting tired of being seated near her sister who was reading a
book under a tree.

ALICE: How can my sister read a book without any pictures?. Oh, if it weren´t so hot I would be making a daisy chain.

NARRATOR: Then suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. The Rabbit said to himself.

WHITE RABBIT: Oh dear!. Oh dear!. Time is out, I will be late!.

NARRATOR: Alice was surprised, then she saw how the Rabbit took out a watch from his waistcoat pocket, and looked at it, and then ran away. Alice
stood up quickly.

ALICE: A Rabbit with a waistcoat and a watch!. I have to catch it!.

NARRATOR: Alice ran across the field after the rabbit, and when she was about to catch it, the little animal went inside a large rabbit-hole under the
hedge, and said.

WHITE RABBIT: I can´t be late!.

NARRATOR: Alice followed the Rabbit and went inside.

ALICE: I am falling down through a very deep well… but I am falling very slowly! It´s strange, there are cupboards , bookshelves, pictures and maps!.
When will this well come to an end!.

NARRATOR: Suddenly the little girl, fell into a pile of dry leaves . Alice stood up, and there was another long passage, and there was the White Rabbit
still running.

WHITE RABBIT: Oh my ears and whiskers, now I am really late!.

NARRATOR: The Rabbit turned to a corner, and disappeared. Alice was in a great low room, surrounded by doors of different sizes. She tried to
open them.

ALICE: All the doors are locked! How am I going to get out of here . Over there, in the middle of the room there´s a glass table and a tiny golden key
on it, mmmm, it´s too small, it doesn´t open any door!.

NARRATOR: However, on the second time round, the door opened. The door led into a small narrow passage. She knelt down and looked along the
passage, it was the loveliest garden she had ever seen.

ALICE: Oh, I want to go to that garden!. But how could I?. I will never fit through the little door. But, what is this little bottle?. I´ll taste it, mmmm, I
like it, I´ll drink the whole bottle. I feel strange. I am getting smaller, just like a telescope.

NARRATOR: She was now only ten inches high. Then she went to the little door, hoping to get out to the garden. But, poor Alice, the door was locked,
and she forgot the key over the table. Then she sat down on the floor, and cried.

ALICE: I am behaving like a fool. There´s no use in crying!. But, under the table there´s a little box!.

NARRATOR: Alice opened the little box, and said.

ALICE: It has a small cake that says EAT ME!. Well, I´ll eat it. Something marvellous has to happen. I have learned that in this place, everything is
marvelous.

NARRATOR: She ate a little bite, but she noticed there was no difference, so she kept eating until she finished the whole cake. Then…

ALICE: I am getting bigger!. Oh! I hurt my head with the roof!.! I am a big girl!. But now I can take the key.

NARRATOR: Poor big girl. But the only thing she could do was to lie down on the floor, and look through the door into the garden with one eye.
Then she began to cry again.

ALICE: I should be ashamed of myself!. It´s not right that a great girl like me, cries like a baby.

NARRATOR: But she kept crying and crying and she stopped crying when she saw White Rabbit, with a pair of white gloves in one hand, and a fan in
the other.

WHITE RABBIT: Oh, by this time the Duchess must be savage!. I can´t keep her waiting anymore!.

ALICE: Mr. Rabbit!. Mr. Rabbit!. Wait Please!. Just a moment!. Listen to me!.

NARRATOR: When the Rabbit heard Alice, it got scared and dropped the white gloves and the fan, and ran away as fast as it could. Alice picked up
the gloves and the fan, she fanned herself, and said.

ALICE: What a day!. Yesterday everything was so normal. Oh, I am getting smaller again!. I wonder why!. Maybe it´s the fan!.

NARRATOR: She dropped the fan just when she was about to disappear.

ALICE: Now I can go to the garden!. But what´s this?. I have fallen into salt water.
NARRATOR: There was a mouse, and she said

ALICE: Oh, it´s a mouse!. But since now I am small, I see it huge!. I will talk to the mouse, maybe it can answer me!

NARRATOR: So she said.

ALICE: Tell me, mouse, do you know the way out of this pool?.

NARRATOR: The mouse looked at her, and said…..

MOUSE: let´s swim to the shore. Look!. We have company. The pool is full of creatures!.

ALICE: It´s true!. It´s a parrot, a duck, and eagle, and many more!.

NARRATOR: Alice swam near the little animals. After a while they were on shore.

ALICE: We are all wet!.

MOUSE: I agree with you!. What do you think, parrot?.

PARROT: I think we should have a race-course.

ALICE: A race course?. What´s that?.

PARROT: You don´t know?. Look, When I say ready, everybody will start running. Ready!. Go!.

NARRATOR: Everybody started running, and half an hour later, the parrot said.

PARROT: Everybody is dry!. The race is over!.

MOUSE: Who won?.

PARROT: Everybody has won!. All of you have to receive a prize.

DUCK: Who will give the prizes?.

EAGLE: Yes, who?.

PARROT: The little girl, obviously!

NARRATOR: Alice put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a box of candies, and handed them round as prizes.

MOUSE: What about her?. Isn´t she going to receive a prize?.

PARROT: Of course she is!. Let´s see Alice, what else do you have in your other pocket?.

ALICE: Let me see. Only a thimble.

PARROT: Give it to me. Please accept this elegant thimble, as a prize.

NARRATOR: They all cheered. she didn´t dare to laugh, so she just said.

ALICE: It´s an honor for me to accept this beautiful prize

NARRATOR: The mouse left and so did the parrot and the eagle

ALICE: Please, don´t leave me alone!. Someone is coming, It´s the White Rabbit!.

WHITE RABBIT: The Duchess!. The Duchess!. Oh my fur and whiskers!. She’ll get me executed, as sure as two plus two are eight!. Where did I leave
the gloves?.

NARRATOR: The Rabbit was looking for the gloves and the fan. At last, the Rabbit noticed Alice, and said.

WHITE RABBIT: Mary Ann, what ARE you doing out here?. Run home this moment, and bring me another pair of gloves and a fan!. Quick, now!.

NARRATOR: Alice was so frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made. When
she got W Rabits´home

ALICE: Oh, how lucky I am, over the table there is a pair of gloves and a fan, and a little bottle!. I will drink it, and I hope I can grow large again, I
am getting tired of being so small.

NARRATOR: In fact, as soon as she drank the little bottle, she grew so fast that she had to take an arm out of the window, and a leg up the chimney,
but there was no chance of getting out of the room again, she started crying. After a while she heard a voice outside.

WHITE RABBIT: Mary Ann!. Mary Ann!. Answer me!. Where are my pair of gloves?. Can´t you hear me?. What is going on!. The door is not
opening. Mary Ann, tell me why you locked the door?. Answer me!. Very good, then I´ll go in through the window.

NARRATOR: The rabbit was just under the window. Then there was a crash of broken glass, and the rabbit shouted.
RABBIT: Oh!.

NARRATOR: Next, the Rabbit with an angry voice, said.

WHITE RABBIT: Pat!. Pat!. Where are you?. Pat!. Pat!.

PAT: Here I am, digging for apples.

WHITE RABBIT: Come and help me get out of here!. Tell me what you see in the window.

PAT: I see an arm, your honor.

WHITE RABBIT: What do you mean, an arm?. Who has ever seen an arm that big?.

PAT: Well, I insist, it´s an arm.

WHITE RABBIT: Then, why is an arm there?. Take it away!.

PAT: I am scared of the arm.

WHITE RABBIT: Don´t be a coward!. Then go down through the chimney!. I order you to do it!.

PAT: Very well, I will go down the chimney.

ALICE: Oh, I will kick him.

NARRATOR: Alice kicked Pat so hard, that he flew through the air. Then she heard animal voices.

ANIMALS: Look!. Look!. It´s Pat

WHITE RABBIT: Hold up his head!.

ANIMAL 1: Don’t choke him.

ANIMAL 2: How was it?.

WHITE RABBIT: What happened to you?. Tell us all about it!.

PAT: I don´t know, suddenly I was thrown through the air like a sky-rocket!.

WHITE RABBIT: we must burn the house down!.

NARRATOR: Alice could not see what was happening outside, but she could hear them, so she said.

ALICE: Wait! And you Mr. Rabbit, if you burn the house, I´ll set my cat Dinah at you!. I am warning you, she likes to eat rabbits!.

NARRATOR: There was silence instantly, and Alice waited for an answer. At last, She felt a shower of little pebbles the pebbles were all turning into
little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head.

ALICE: I´ll eat one of these cakes, and I hope I will not grow bigger.

NARRATOR: She ate a cake, and she began shrinking

ALICE: Now I have to eat or drink something to grow to my right size again. I wonder what it will be.

NARRATOR: Near her there was a big mushroom and a large blue caterpillar sitting on it., smoking a long hookah. The Caterpillar talked to her in
a languid voice.

CATERPILLAR: Who are you?.

ALICE: IT´s better if I go, Mr. Caterpillar,. See you!

CATERPILLAR: Come back!. I’ve something important to say!.

NARRATOR: Alice turned and came back again.

ALICE: What is it?.

CATERPILLAR: Keep your temper.

ALICE: Is that all?.

CATERPILLAR: Of course not. So you think you have changed?.

ALICE: I don´t think so. I don’t keep the same size for fifteen minutes together!.

CATERPILLAR: Are you content now?.

ALICE: Impossible. I would like to be a little larger. I must measure three inches height. It´s ridiculous!.
CATERPILLAR: It is a very good height!. That´s what I measure.

ALICE: Forgive me, Mr. Caterpillar, don´t feel offended, but I am not used to being so small.

CATERPILLAR: You’ll get used to it.

NARRATOR: The Caterpillar got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, and said.

CATERPILLAR: One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.

ALICE: One side of what?. The other side of what?.

CATERPILLAR: Of the mushroom, everybody knows that.

NARRATOR: As soon as the Caterpillar left, Alice cut a piece of the mushroom. Then she ate a little from both hands until she was of normal size.
Then kept walking through the forest. Suddenly she saw a large black cat who was grinning from ear to ear, it was Cheshire Cat.

ALICE: Oh, would you tell me, please, which way I have to go from here?.

CHESHIRE CAT: Ha, ha, ha, ha, that depends on where you want to get to.

ALICE: I don’t care that much.

CHESHIRE CAT: THEN it doesn’t matter which way you go.

ALICE: As long as I get somewhere. What kind of people live here?.

CHESHIRE CAT: To the north, lives a Hatter. And to the south lives a March Hare. Visit either you like, they’re both mad.

ALICE: But I don’t like mad people.

CHESHIRE CAT: We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.

ALICE: Why do you say that?. How do you know I’m mad?.

CHESHIRE CAT: Because you are here. Tell me, are you going to play croquet with the Queen today?.

ALICE: I like croquet, but I haven’t been invited yet.

CHESHIRE CAT: Anyway, you’ll see me there.

NARRATOR: And the Cat vanished.

CHESHIRE CAT: Ha, ha, ha, ha.

ALICE: This is funny!.

NARRATOR: she saw the house of the March Hare. There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter
were having tea at it. A Dormouse was sitting between them, When Alice approached them, they said.

MARCH HARE, HATTER: There´s no room for you!. There´s no room!.

ALICE: Of course there is!. I´ll sit down in that armchair.

MARCH HARE: Then drink some wine!.

ALICE: How can I drink wine, if there´s only tea!.

MARCH HARE: I knew there wasn´t any wine.

ALICE: Then why are you telling me to drink it. You are not being polite!.

MARCH HARE: Well, it´s also not polite to sit down without being invited.

ALICE: I didn’t know it was your table, it’s set for more than four.

NARRATOR: Meanwhile, the Hatter was looking at Alice silently. Finally he said.

HATTER: You should cut your hair, it´s too long.

ALICE: I can see that they they didn´t tell you not to make personal remarks.

NARRATOR: There was silent for a minute Then the Hatter said while looking at his watch.

HATTER: What day is today?.

ALICE: It´s the fourth.

ALICE: What a funny watch. It tells the day of the month, but not the time.

ALICE: Right now, I can´t remember any.

MARCH HARE: Then the Dormouse will.

ALICE: But the Dormouse is sleeping.

DORMOUSE: I´m not asleep. I heard every word you said.

HATTER: Tell us something.

ALICE: Yes, please!.

HATTER: Don´t talk, young lady!.

NARRATOR: Alice was angry at his rudeness, she stood up and walked off

ALICE: I don´t want to see you again!. Oh, in that tree!. There´s a little door!. I´ll go in. But what a beautiful garden

NARRATOR: A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden. The roses growing on it were white, but there were three poker cards, who were
gardeners. busily painting them red. Alice heard their conversation.

TWO: Look out, Five!. You´re splashing paint all over me!.

FIVE: It wasn´t me. It was Seven, he pushed me with his elbow.

SEVEN: You are always blaming me.

FIVE: Seven, be quiet. Yesterday, the Queen said you deserved to be beheaded!.

TWO: Why?.

SEVEN: That’s none of your business, Two!. Look, a little girl!.

ALICE: Would you be so kind to tell me why you are painting those roses?.

TWO: You see, Miss, we made a mistake. We planted a white rose tree, instead of a red one, just as the Queen told us. So we are doing our best, before
she comes.

SEVEN: Quiet!. The Queen!.

NARRATOR: The three gardeners instantly threw themselves to the floor. Then, poker cards appeared, Next the courtiers. After these the royal
children, with hearts, Next the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, and among them, the White Rabbit. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the
King’s crown, and, last came the King and Queen of Hearts. They all stopped and looked at Alice, and the Queen said.

QUEEN: Who is she?. Nobody knows!. What’s your name, child?.

ALICE: My name is Alice, your Majesty.

NARRATOR: But she added, to herself.

ALICE: I shouldn´t be afraid, they are only a pack of cards.

QUEEN: And who are these on the floor?. All my courtiers are the same on the opposite side!. Answer me, Alice!.

ALICE: How should I know?. It’s none of my business.

QUEEN: Off with her head!.

CROWD: Yes!. Off with her head!.

KING: One moment, I the King have the right to speak. Don´t you see my dear Queen, that she is only a child?. Maybe she knows how to play
croquet.

QUEEN: If she knows how to play, I will forgive her. Alice, follow me, stand beside the Rabbit.

ALICE: Hello, Mr. Rabbit, we finally meet again. Where´s the Duchess?.

WHITE RABBIT: Quiet!. She will be executed.

ALICE: Why?.

WHITE RABBIT: She was late, the Queen was angry, and the Duchess slapped her.

ALICE: Ha, ha, it´s funny.

NARRATOR: When the Queen shouted, people began running in all directions, But when someone was about to beat the Queen, she shouted.

QUEEN: Off with his head!.

NARRATOR: Alice played as best as she could, but when she beat the Queen, she said.

QUEEN: Off with her head!.

ALICE: You can´t leave me without my head. I have the right to be judged!.

QUEEN: Very well, let´s go to my palace!.

NARRATOR: That´s how Alice entered the palace, accused of beating the Queen in a croquet game. There was a jury. Alice imagined herself without
her head, so she took from her pocket a piece of cake, ate it, and said to herself.

ALICE: If I grow to my full size, I will be safe. It´s my only chance. Yes, I am growing, I´m getting bigger and bigger!.

QUEEN: I will say the sentence first, then the verdict. Off with her head!.

ALICE: I don´t think you can make it, Queen of Hearts!. You´re nothing but a card!. And I am big!.

QUEEN: I order you to be quiet!.

ALICE: I will not be quiet!. All of you are only a pack of cards!. I am not afraid of you!.

NARRATOR: Then all the cards stood up and angrily came flying down upon her. The little girl tried to beat them off, but she couldn´t. She tried to
stood up, but then she found out she had her head in the lap of her sister, and that everything had been a wonderful dream.

ALICE: Dear sister, I had such a curious dream!. Someday I will tell you about it.

NARRATOR: Suddenly, Alice saw a Rabbit.

ALICE: Look!. Look sister!. A White Rabbit with a waistcoat and a watch! I´ll follow him!. Come!. Come with me to wonderland!.

THE END