Wonderland Productions
Dramatisation of The Picture of Dorian Grey
Welcome to Wonderland! At Wonderland we love to offer our audiences a thrilling night out. Through our portfolio of site-specific performances, classic comedies, new writing, dinner theatre, opera, and drama workshops, we are committed to engaging with our audiences, in a meaningful, spirited and more often than not, fun and surprising way. That is why audiences flock to our shows, and that is why our shows tour extensively, both in Ireland and internationally.
Enjoy highlights from Wonderland shows:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Gulliver's Travels
- La Locandiera, or Mirandolina the Hostess of the Inn
- Life Shop Till You Drop!
- The Miser
In 2010 we were resident at Mermaid Arts Centre Bray with whom we have developed a fruitful relationship, touring over twenty performances of our dinner theatre shows to restaurants and country houses throughout County Wicklow, producing our most fantastical spectacle to date Gulliver’s Travels, and initiating our children’s drama workshops series, which will expand to five nationwide Arts Centres over ten weeklong workshops in 2012.
It is wonderful to think, that since our foundation by writer/director Alice Coghlan in 2003, we have staged over five hundred successful performances, producing 121 performances in 2010 alone and employing over 55 theatre artists and practitioners in that same year. Looking forward to 2012, Wonderland will be moving from the theatre to the streets for its site-specific staging of Sylvia’s Quest, an audio experience on headphones with one live actress, and a self-guided audio tour of James Joyce’s Dubliners with One City One Book.
“Quite simply superb! Witty, wonderful, Wonderland… the most promising company since the debut years of Rough Magic ... Without any risk of overstatement, Wonderland Productions is a company that is really going places” The Irish Times
“One of the most strikingly inventive companies to have emerged in recent years” The Independent on The Hostage.
Wonderland’s Production History
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. Adapted and directed by Alice Coghlan. Mermaid Arts Centre & National Tour 2010-11.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Adapted & directed by Alice Coghlan. Three 3-week-long Dublin revivals & 3 National Tours to date.
- The Hostage by Brendan Behan, site-specific at Pearse Centre 2009
- La Locandiera by Goldoni, Edinburgh Festival & 4 National Tours 09 -10
- Life Shop till you Drop! by Alice Coghlan Six National Tours 2007-10, and international tour to Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Pagliacci, Lunchtime opera at Bewleys Café Theatre 2008.
- The Miser by Molière, Dublin Fringe Festival 2007.
- The Wonderland Christmas Cabaret, Bewleys Café Theatre 2005.
- L’Amour Medicin by Molière, Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2005.
- The Seagull After Chekhov, Dublin Fringe Festival 2004.
- The Spook Show by Alice Coghlan, Dublin Fringe 2003.
