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Queenswood School's A Christmas Carol (abridged) by Charles Dickens. - Credit: Queenswood School. Supplied by WGC YDF More than 200 talented youngsters from nearly 40 entries took part in this year's virtual Welwyn Garden City Youth Drama Festival over six nights online. As the curtain fell on the final night of the 76th WGC Youth Drama Festival on March 7, 2020, nobody could have guessed that, just days later, it would also have curtailed all activities on the Barn Theatre stage for over a year. The subsequent weeks and months came and went, with ever changing edicts and advice from the ...

Dunphy School students pitch ideas for Greenway path entrance Published: 3/12/2021 6:00:30 PM WILLIAMSBURG — Imagine seeing the March Hare and Mad Hatter at the entrance of the Greenway bike and pedestrian path. That’s how Morgan Culver, a student at the Anne T. Dunphy School, began her presentation to the Mill River Greenway Committee and other interested parties, where she pitched an “Alice In Wonderland”-themed opening to the Greenway. Morgan was one of 18 fifth graders who gave presentations to the committee last week in which they shared their ideas for what an entrance for the...

And with a gentle hand   Lay it where Childhood’s dreams are twined   In Memory’s mystic band,   Like pilgrim’s withered wreath of flowers   Plucked in a far-off land. What is it that draws us back to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Alice for short), both individually and collectively? What is it that makes Alice, in the words of literary critic, Harold Bloom, “a kind of Scripture for us” — like Shakespeare? There have been numerous movie adaptations and many other works inspired by the story. Perhaps the greatest is a little-known, 1971 short film by the US Departmen...

JENNIFER MOODY For the E Back in the Before Times, when students went to school in person and live theater was a thing, five Albany students decided to take character backstories to a new level. It was late 2018 and Grace Foultner, Lilly Johnson, Noel Mayer, Ella Winter and Anika Ylen were seventh-graders; friends who called themselves the Banana Band. All had roles in a Memorial Middle School student production of “Alice in Wonderland” — along with more than two dozen of their classmates. With 33 people in the cast, the Banana Band had time to kill backstage. El...

OPINION: When Alice was enduring the Mad Hatter’s tea party, the host presented her with a riddle: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” After some discussion between Alice and the other two guests, Dormouse and March Hare, the Hatter demanded if she had guessed the riddle. Alice confessed that she hadn’t. “No, I give it up. What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea” said the Hatter in triumph. I am beginning to have sympathy for Adrian Orr, although I am sure this will pass. He is trapped at his own Mad Hatter’s party. I will not speculate who is Dormouse and ...