Alice’s Adventures Beyond the Canal
On Demand (IF 2022)
Storytelling, Performance
Alice’s Adventures Beyond the Canal
Podcast
Exploring a new world, Alice, a sassy, gen-z teenager, meets a characterful Jester and where there was once madness, there’s now science. Alice unearths the importance of blending ancient ways with artificial intelligence for animal conservation in the ocean; heads into the sky to learn about bats, and then looks up to the stars above, to ponder on curious questions of language and voice recognition and solve an important riddle.
Download and read the story, 6 pages (PDF)
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Alice’s Adventures Beyond the Canal
Written and Directed by JC Niala
Illustrations by Lisa Curtis.
Sound recording and editing by Matthew Dunlop
Produced by Dane Comerford
This story was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass
and the work of AAAS IF/THEN Ambassadors:
Abake Adenle, Adele Luta, Beata Mierzwa,
Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Dorothy Tovar and Gracie Ermi;
It was supported by the U.S. Embassy London and Oxford Playhouse
Cast (in order of appearance):
Narrator and voice of Grandma ……….. JC Niala
The Jester …………………………… Dane Comerford
Alice ………………………………………. Kineta Kunutu
The Kingfisher ………………………….. Jim Al-Khalili
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