ALICE’s Tea Party
Multilateral Comenius Project 2009-2011 ALICE’s Knowledge Road
ALICE’s Tea Party Author: Lucinda Bento October 2010 ES Marques Castilho – Águeda- Portugal
Characters played by project students:
Queen – Catarina Viegas
Rabbit – João Nadais
Alice – Inês Amaro
Card 1 – Ana Margarida Portugal
Mad Hatter – Joana Canas
Card 2 – Margarida Guapo
Dormouse – Carolina Martins
Card 3 – Clara Guapo
Chestchire Cat – Guilherme Coelho
Violin Player – Mateus Coelho
Project Partners: Romania: Scholar Group of Alimentary Industry Bulgaria: SOU “Bacho Kiro” Italy: Instituto Superiore di instruziones secondaria I.S.I.S. “V.E. Orlando” Spain: C.C. Es Liceu Lithuania: Endriejavo Secondary School 2
Multilateral Comenius Project 2009-2011 ALICE’s Knowledge Road
ALICE’s Tea Party There’s a tea party table, around which sit Alice and her friends. They are immobilized as if they had been frozen into a picture. (Someone is playing the violin) When all the guests are set in place (Comenius group), the Queen wakes up and indignant but majestic, inquires: (at the same time, all the characters wake up [except for the Rabbit, who snores lightly] from their deep sleep)
Queen: Who are these mad people?! They are not properly dressed! How dare they coming here dressing like this! On top of it, they are late! (The other characters tick tack at once, moving their heads like a clock pendulum)
You cannot make a Queen wait! Who are these mad people, I say?
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Multilateral Comenius Project 2009-2011 ALICE’s Knowledge Road
Rabbit (Startled and repeating the questions): Who? What? Where? Tweedledum and Tweedledee I guess we all have to agree, Tweedledum and Tweedledee They’ve just arrived for tea! (yawns, and goes back to sleep again and keeps on snoring)
Alice: Tweedledum tweedledee Came far from Baltic Sea, Famous for amber jewelry Tweedledum tweedledee How trendy can this be?
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Multilateral Comenius Project 2009-2011 ALICE’s Knowledge Road
Mad Hatter: Tweedledum tweedledee Are we having frit Mallorqui? Hierbas, carajillo o solo coffee? Tweedledum tweedledee Just wait and see!
Card1: Tweedledum tweedledee Here they are from Feteisti. Beware of dracul’s kissee! Tweedledum tweedledee You should trust me!
Card2: Tweedledum tweedledee Strength and union is the key Golden lions with pedigree Tweedledum tweedledee Isn’t that close to the black sea? 5
Multilateral Comenius Project 2009-2011 ALICE’s Knowledge Road
Dormouse: Tweedledum tweedledee I can smell Giovanni Verdi Island, olive and orange tree Tweedledum tweedlede I guess they come from Italy!
The Queen hasn´t been convinced yet about the identity of the invaders, so she goes on:
Queen: Who are all these mad people, I still demand to know? Mad Hatter: I’m a specialist on mad issues. Where shall I begin? Cheshire Cat: Begin at the beginning and and go on till you come to the end, then stop. Alice: I’m used to seeing people, but this group! Oh my, it’s the most curious thing I’ve ever seen in my life! Dormouse: I like people!… And I also like biscuits. I came to a tea party, but still no tea. This is very, very weird.
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Multilateral Comenius Project 2009-2011 ALICE’s Knowledge Road
Queen: Silly, silly, a bunch of silly creatures, that’s what they are! Either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time! Take your choice! Card2: Can we choose? Can we choose? Can we? (desperately begging the Queen). You see, we don’t like blood! We’d rather pour some tea. Card3: You see, we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad. Shall we? Come and have some tea (inviting head teachers to have some tea, serving biscuits to the other guests)
The violin player plays some more music and tea is served to the guests.
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