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Alice is desperately looking for someone to help her get out of Wonderland. She enters the Duchess' house looking for some answers. Instead, she stumbles across Duchess, nursing a baby, and Cook, bumbling around the kitchen. The Duchess sings the baby strange lullabies. Alice can’t believe the mess Cook is making in the kitchen. Cook is throwing pots and pans across the room, even hitting the Duchess, who doesn’t seem to take any notice. The Duchess, leaving to get ready for a croquet game with
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Start: (The Duchess sits on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby. The Cook leans over the stove, stirring a large cauldron, full of soup. A large cat sits on the rug and grins from ear to ear. Alice begins to sneeze) ALICE: There’s certainly too much pepper in that soup! (The Duchess sneezes occasionally as well. The baby sneezes and howls alternatingly without a moment’s pause) ALICE: Please would you tell me why your cat grins like that? DUCHESS: It’s a Cheshire Cat, and that’s why.
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End: (The baby grunts) ALICE: Don’t grunt, that’s not the proper way to express yourself! (The baby grunts again) ALICE: If you’re going to turn into a pig, my dear, I’ll have nothing more to do with you. (The baby grunts even louder. Alice undoes the baby’s blanket to reveal that it is, in fact, a pig. Alice, quite alarmed, sets the creature down. The pig trots away. ALICE: Curiouser and curiouser…...
Pizzarello, Jason, Alice in Wonderland, Playscripts, 2007, p. 9-11,
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