Alice and Kafka are Dead/Long Live the Rosenbergs (2005)
Co-production with 7Stages Theatre, Atlanta (USA)

Featuring: Faye Allen, Del Hamilton, Aleksandra Jelić, Sanja Krsmanović-Tasić, Maja Mitić
Music: Nebojša Ignjatović
Direction: Dijana Milošević
Set and video design: Neša Paripović
Sound: Brian Ginn
Stage manager: Heidi Howard
Texts: Brown, T.E. My Garden; Carroll, Lewis. Alice Through the Looking Glass; Conquergood, Dwight "Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty" Theatre Journal, Johns Hopkins University Press Georgia State Department of Corrections; The Execution of Ivon Ray Stanley (http://soundportraits.org/on-air/execution_tapes/complete_audio.php3); Jankovic, I. Smrt u Prisustvu; Kafka, Franz. The Trial; Knopp, Fay Honey et al. Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists; Lewis, Allan. "Strange Fruit"; "Little Sir Hugh" (Traditional Song); Meeropol, Able. Strange Fruit; Meeropol, Robert and Michael. We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg; Ryan, Perry T. The Last Public Execution in America; Wilkens, M. & D. Dill Long Black Veil.

How do you solve a problem like Ethel Rosenberg? Or Alice in Wonderland? Both women were sentenced to death, one in fiction, one in all-too-real life. Great trials and great literature collide in this ensemble-created co-production with Dah Teatar from Belgrade which looks to the root of what these stories and other tales of capital punishment from both cultures share in common.

As today's headlines even prove, a juicy trial makes for some of the best theatre there is.

Premiere: August 2005. (USA)