The first play by the distinguished writer Susan
Sontag, Alice in Bed focuses on the invalid sister of William
and Henry James - who all happen to have lived in Cambridge, just a
few blocks from the present site of the A.R.T. The play starts out as
an exploration of a woman who, though no less gifted than her famous
brothers, was forced to labor under a cloud of anonymity. Soon we've
moved into a wild fantasy based on Alice in Wonderland, with
Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller and other gifted women of the age substituting
for the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse.
[A.R.T. News_Preview Article]
[Guests at a Mad Tea Party]
A Boston Globe article on this production can be retrieved for a
fee
via a NewsLibrary search - Enter
the word Sontag, select Boston Globe, and select the
specific date 04/07/1996
