History Theatre / AlicesAdventuresInWonderland

* {{Gorn}}: "Pig and Pepper," especially in the original version. It's the ballet's only real example of {{Grimmification}}. The Duchess's Cook is obsessed with pork sausage as well as pepper, the kitchen is filled with slaughtered pigs' body parts, and after the Duchess's baby becomes a pig, it's implied that he'll share those pigs' fate.

* {{Gorn}}: "Pig and Pepper," especially in the original version. It's the ballet's only real example of {{Grimmification}}.

* AllJustADream: As in most versions of the story, this is the ending. But here there's a twist: [[spoiler: it was the dream of a modern young woman in Oxford, who apparently fell asleep while reading the original book and that dreamed she was Alice and her boyfriend was Jack/the Knave of Hearts.]]

* ParentService: The Caterpillar, very much. Although his counterpart in the garden party is the Rajah, the Caterpillar's scene is a genderflipped version of the Arabian dance, Coffee, from ''Theater/TheNutcracker''.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: The Queen of Harts is very angry since someone is stealing her tarts.

* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Alice after she drinks the Drink Me potion.

* ParentService: The Caterpillar, very much. Although his counterpart in the garden party is the Rajah, the Caterpillar's scene is a genderflipped version of the Arabian dance, Coffee, from ''TheNutcracker''.

* CheshireCatGrin

* IncredibleShrinkingMan

* NightmareFuel: "Pig And Pepper". Dear ''god'', "Pig And Pepper". Especially in the original version. It starts when the Cook opens a window and smoke pours out as she sharpens two oversized meat cleavers. Alice goes inside the house...where everything is bathed in red light and giant pigs are strung up from the ceiling, plus one that's half in a mincer with sausages coming out the other end. The Cook and the Duchess both have blood-stained aprons on, and more than once end up attempting to ''kill'' each other. Then, after all that, Alice escapes from the house with the baby (who has by now turned into a pig), only to have it snatched from her by the Duchess who carries it ''back inside the house'' while the Cook slams the door brandishing her meat cleaver. Considering that the rest of the ballet is arguably LighterAndSofter than its literature counterpart, this entire section is particularly jarring.

* TheMadHatter: In this production, he also tap dances

* FollowTheWhiteRabbit

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen

* TheMadHatter
* MagicMushroom

* AgeLift: Alice is portrayed as an adolescent instead of a child, complete with a love interest, and danced by an adult ballerina. Of course, this could be because [[DreamWithinADream she's really a contemporary young woman dreaming that she's Alice.]]

* AllJustADream: As in most versions of the story, this is the ending. But here there's a twist: [[it was the dream of a modern young woman in Oxford, who apparently fell asleep while reading the original book and that dreamed she was Alice and her boyfriend was Jack/the Knave of Hearts.]]

* CourtroomAntics: And how!

* ASpotOfTea: Although only the March Hare seems to get any.

* AndYouWereThere: All of the Wonderland characters appear as their Victorian equivalents in the garden party prologue.

** The Queen's Jam Tart Adagio parodies the Rose Adagio from ''Disney/SleepingBeauty.''

* LittleBitBeastly / PettingZooPeople: The Wonderland animals, with the White Rabbit, Dormouse, and March Hare at the LBB end and the Caucus Race animals more PZP.
** Averted by the Caterpillar, who looks completely human, aside from a brief glimpse of his "legs" at the very end of his scene.
** Also averted by the Cheshire Cat, but to the opposite extreme; he's completely animal.

The revised 2012 staging breaks the evening into three acts. Act I now incorporates more dancing for Alice and the Knave, and ends right before Alice's encounter with the Cheshire Cat. The DVD preserves the two-act version.

** There are multiple references to ''Theatre/TheNutcracker,'' including the dance of the flowers that ends Act I (or II, depending on the version). The White Rabbit is also closer to Drosselmeier than to Carroll's original. Other similarities with The Nutcracker includes: most of the story takes place within the main character's, who is a girl, drea; both end with the girl waking up from her dream; both ballets begin with a party and the main antagonist is a royal.

** There are multiple references to ''Theatre/TheNutcracker,'' including the dance of the flowers that ends Act I (or II, depending on the version). The White Rabbit is also closer to Drosselmeier than to Carroll's original. Other similarities with The Nutcraker includes most of the story takes place within the main character's, who is a girl, dream, both end with the girl waking up from her dream, both ballets begin with a party and the main antagonist is a royal.

** There are multiple references to ''Theatre/TheNutcracker,'' including the dance of the flowers that ends Act I (or II, depending on the version). The White Rabbit is also closer to Drosselmeier than to Carroll's original. Another similarities with The Nutcraker includes most of the story takes place within the main character's, who is a girl, dream, both end with the girl waking up from her dream, both ballets begin with a party and the main antagonist is a royal.

** There are multiple references to ''Theatre/TheNutcracker,'' including the dance of the flowers that ends Act I (or II, depending on the version). The White Rabbit is also closer to Drosselmeier than to Carroll's original. Another similarities with The Nutcraker includes most of the story takes place within the main character's, who is a girl, dream, both end with the girl waking up from her dream and the main antagonist is a royal.

** There are multiple references to ''Theatre/TheNutcracker,'' including the dance of the flowers that ends Act I (or II, depending on the version). The White Rabbit is also closer to Drosselmeier than to Carroll's original. The dancers in the caterpillar scene look a lot like the Arabian (Coffee) dancers from a lot of productions of that ballet.

** There are multiple references to ''Theatre/TheNutcracker,'' including the dance of the flowers that ends Act I (or II, depending on the version). The White Rabbit is also closer to Drosselmeier than to Carroll's original.