There are many works that presume to continue the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) story, but Dreamchild is different in that it offers a fictionalised account of the girl for whom the famous tale was created in the first place, Alice Hargreaves (Coral Browne), as she nears her eightieth birthday. It's by Dennis Potter and is primarily in his voice, not Carroll's.
It follows her as she travels to America for the centenary of Carroll's birth. She dislikes the bustle and lack of tact she finds there, but she abhors even more that they want her to give an account of what it’s like to be the fiction.
Her memories of the telling of the story given to her as a child by the author revisit her as an aged woman in the present, brought to life in a different world by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop as twisted representations of buried truths about the complicated relationship between the adult and the child.
3 corner shadows out of 5
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