The show won't be entirely in that style, but the people dressed in black are called "Chinese Propmen" (a PR nightmare to put in the program, we're working on that, in reality, it was the Chinese who invented the style - not a derogatory term at all) and we're going to have them in every scene. In the scene where Alice is in the rabbits house getting the gloves and fan and gets huge, we're going to have the people in black manning giant puppet limbs, and also making the 'pebbles' fly through the air and turn into cakes. It's all very complicated and we're hitting "ohbugger" phase right now, but it will all come together soon enough. It's a "Mimodrame" by definition, so we'll have to see how it all comes together? *keeps fingers crossed*
I apologize for the poor image quality, these were snapped by my phone. You'll notice three poles, though they're kind of hard to see, running vertically across the top of the stage. There are flat 6'8" panels that will be rising out of the floor to use as transmogifiers allowing Alice to change from marionette puppet size to her huge room-filling self. We're having those chinese propmen hauling out huge legs/arms/hands/feet that will literally fill the room when all is said and done.
Stage left. The Lighting Designer is the individual in the picture. He's about 5'10" for a point of reference
Stage right. These pictures were taken from the third row.
Taken from the back row looking at the stage. The gap in under the stage in the center will be filled by a revolving door.
This is the grid. There will be over 130 lights on this grid - all the lights the facility we're in has without getting into their old-skool lights (the square ones that have the lenses that can be flip-flopped to get different throw angles... I forget the name, but it starts with a B)