A review by jordantaylor
Alice in Bed: A Play in Eight Scenes by Susan Sontag
3.0
A very dark, whimsical play fashioned after Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." There are references to symmetrical story-lines scattered through-out the play, at times subtle and at times obvious (for example, a Mad Tea Party).
The Alice of this book, Alice James, was an actual person related to Henry James. Sontag references Giselle and Wagner by putting their characters into her play. She also has Emily Dickinson attend Alice's tea party. The author references Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" in the after-note, which apparently greatly influenced her work.
I really wanted to like it, but I simply couldn't become interested. This play is imaginative, and the writing does resemble "Alice in Wonderland," as obviously was the point of the entire play. However, I personally did not enjoy this one.
The Alice of this book, Alice James, was an actual person related to Henry James. Sontag references Giselle and Wagner by putting their characters into her play. She also has Emily Dickinson attend Alice's tea party. The author references Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" in the after-note, which apparently greatly influenced her work.
I really wanted to like it, but I simply couldn't become interested. This play is imaginative, and the writing does resemble "Alice in Wonderland," as obviously was the point of the entire play. However, I personally did not enjoy this one.