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NT CONNECTIONS commissions new plays for and about young people from some of the best contemporary playwrights, for performance by schools and youth theatres from all over the UK and Ireland, both in their home venues and at sixteen regional partnership theatres. The NT Festival showcases an example of each play. How do we leave childhood behind? How do we close the book? In the throes of adolescence, determined Alice Parsley convinces her seriously ailing friend Alfred to follow her one last time "Down the Hole" and play White Rabbit to her petticoated heroine. Mad as it all is, there's so much she still wants from him. And yet, how late it's getting! In a world of Mad Hatters, and baffling Mock Alices, a handsome Caterpillar puffs deep on his hookah: "Whoooooo are you?" Alice sighs, "If only I knew." The Caterpillar smiles: "Oh, don't I know." A fresh new rock-musical take on Alice in Wonderland, from Steven Sater & Duncan Sheik, creators of Spring Awakening. Age: 13+