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.
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Credits
Creative team
| 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 |