The Alice project. Creative arts therapy in action

Description

At Concordia University's Centre for the Arts in Human Development, developmentally disabled participants work together to create great theater. This film documents the creation of the Centre's most ambitious production to date: a musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, complete with choreography and elaborate props and costumes, mounted on a fully operational proscenium stage. As the performers face the challenges of emoting, physical expression, line memorization, and confronting Carroll's themes of exclusion and alienation, their sense of accomplishment and the extraordinary benefits of the Centre's drama therapy program become clear.

Runtime

47 min

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Date of Publication

[2007], c2003

Database

Films on Demand

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