The beginning of the play is different from the beginning of the first novel. The first scene of the play presents Alice watching Lewis Carroll playing a game of chess against himself. Alice calls him Uncle and speaks to him in a familiar manner. In Carroll’s story, the author is not a character at all. The original story starts with Alice at the riverbank with her sisters. Also, in the original story Alice goes down a rabbit hole to reach Wonderland. In the drama, Alice passes through a mirror.
