This is a biographical account of the man Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known to the world as LEWIS CARROLL. It is aimed at teenagers and older, telling the story of his amazing life – from a quiet religious life as a child in the early Nineteenth Century to becoming a resident Math Professor at Oxford University for 47 years. He achieved worldwide fame under his pen name with the Alice books which have been translated into more than 70 languages.
Roger first presented the show at Fairmont State University in February 1991. He uses outsize playing cards with the famous characters’ images on their faces plus many extracts from Dodgson’s letters. These reveal him to be a surprising person. He was an avid theatre goer and is acknowledged as one of the most important pioneers of photography in Britain.
His Alice was a feminist hero in the face of nonsensical Victorian attitudes.
ROGER JEROME
