Production Based on the Legendary Poem, Jabberwocky Written by Lewis Carroll - Essay Example

The objective of this production is to show the audience, how much we fear the creations of our own imagination and thereby limit our imagination to the mundane. The verses that are repeated at the end of the poem, to me, are a reassurance that there is no end to imagination. As this interpretation demands a mature audience, my target groups are the youth above 16 and adults.  The central theme that I would like to deal with is “ fear of flying and beyond”.  

I would like to depict jabberwocky as a big green tree branching out into the soil and towards the sky. The tree and the teeming forest around it fascinate the boy.  I plan to fill the floor of the stage with heaps of dried leaves by the end of the play, which represents the lost opportunities of imagination. The father and mother of the boy will be seen living their lives full of falsehoods and half-cooked imagination. They are trying to hide the tree and the forest from the boy. But when he finds it, they compel him to believe that it is the dangerous habitat of Jabberwocky. In the end, the boy of course slays the tree but he weeps on its death and tries to paint the fallen leaves, green. Using light effects, all the leaves turn green.