Through the Looking-Glass
Grace Tarducci
GENRE
Theater / Puppetry / Animation
WHEN
May 2026
An abridged adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There written and directed by Grace Tarducci, with puppetry by Sophia Tarducci.
Featuring Claudia Santangelo, Obi Ehn, Valentino Musumeci, Marcel Legros, and Sophia Tarducci
with original music by Marcel Legros
Produced by Eric McKenzie
Through the Looking-Glass is an adaptation and reinvention of the classic Lewis Carroll novel, Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There. Our version of the classic will interpolate contemporary concepts and ideas into the tale, while staying true to the original themes. Looking-Glass will bring together puppetry, animation, nonsense, and surreal horror to illustrate the other side of the mirror.
Originally penned as a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Looking-Glass is a story of aging and death, alternate realities and interior worlds, wrapped up in a tale of nonsense that begs to be revered and interpreted as a stand-alone piece just as much as a companion to Wonderland.
Grace Tarducci
(she/her) is a Brooklyn based director, writer, stop motion animator, and visual artist. Tarducci has an extensive body of short-form work, both live and animated. In 2023, she completed her first feature film, Blue World, for which she won the ELOA grant and was featured in the Los Angeles Liftoff Festival. You can find her micro-budget work on YouTube, Vimeo, and Instagram @gracetarducci.
Credit
Artist Grace Tarducci
with Claudia Santangelo, Obi Ehn, Valentino Musumeci, Marcel Legros, and Sophia Tarducci
Produced by Eric McKenzie