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.
Alice in Bed
April 11, 1996 - May 5, 1996
The first play by the distinguished writer Susan Sontag, Alice in Bed starts out as a biographical exploration of the invalid sister of William and Henry James, but soon explodes into a wild fantasy base on Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland.
Creators
Casts and Credits
| Alice James | Stephanie Roth |
| her Nurse | Steve Harper |
| Henry, her brother | Thomas Derrah |
| Father/Mother | Will LeBow |
| Margaret Fuller | Deborah Breitman |
| Emily Dickinson | Blair Sams |
| Myrtha (Queen of the Willis, from Giselle) | Erica Yoder |
| Kundry (from Parsifal) | Kwana Martinez |
| Young Man | Kevin Bergen |
| set designers | Laurie Olinder and Fred Tietz |
| costume designer | Susan Anderson |
| lighting designer | John Ambrosone |
| sound designer | Christopher Walker |
| with compositions by | Jim Farmer |
| films by | Bill Morrison |
Non-Required Reading
Susan Sontag's Alice in Bed
The historical figures behind the play
