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André William Gregory (born May 11, 1934) is a French-born American theatre director, writer and actor. Arguably, Gregory’s most influential contribution to American theatre remains the Manhattan Project’s 1970 production of Alice in Wonderland, derived from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
The play was formed through an improvisation period lasting many months. The end result was a theatrical marvel: the actors, prompted to create the world of Wonderland as though they were “[…] a group of children limited to a padded cell,” performed impressive physical feats, forming the caterpillar and his mushroom from their bodies, creating towers from stacks of chairs, and inflating and shrinking themselves considerably.
Gregory became known for his unusual methods of directing, which he utilized during Alice‘s formation: he would sit in silence during rehearsals for hours at a time, allowing the actors to play uninterrupted.
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