Alice in Bed

WRITTEN BY: Susan Sontag
DIRECTED BY: Dado

January, 11, 2007 – Sunday, February 18, 2007

“The atmosphere in director Dado’s bold staging for Trap Door Theatre is febrile and fantastic….A smart and heartfelt portrait of the interior life of a highly intelligent and desperately thwarted woman…”
- Chicago Tribune

“Dado and her cast give the evening a sense of surreal whimsy even as Nicole Wiesner makes Alice’s depression and anguish disturbingly clear. Engaged, multilevel performances underscore the characters’ passions yet preserve a deep sense of mystery…”
-Chicago Reader

“Highly theatrical and visual…Count on Trap Door to give us what no one else does…”
-Windy City Times

CAST: Melissa Cook, Noah Durham, Karen Foley, John Gray, Carolyn Hoerdemann, Kim McKean, Doug Vickers, Nicole Wiesner, Jenni Zohn, Elston Adelaide Zohn Tortuga ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Melissa Cook FILM DESIGN: Carrie Holt de Lama SET DESIGN: Ewelina Dobiesz LIGHTING DESIGN: Richard Norwood COSTUME DESIGN: Karen Kawa SOUND DESIGN: Joe Court PROP DESIGN: Julia Klein Alice in Bed … A dramatic fantasy which merges the life of Alice James, the brilliant sister of William and Henry James, with the heroine of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. It is a play about the triumphs and limitations of imagination and escape.