How do you solve a problem like Ethel Rosenberg? Or Alice in Wonderland? Both are condemned to death, one in a fairy tale, the other in real life. Great trials and great works of literature meet in this co-production, which explores what the backgrounds of these and other death penalty stories from both cultures have in common. As today's headlines show, a thrilling trial is theater at its best. [2005]

Starring: Faye Allen, Del Hamilton, Aleksandra Jelić, Sanja Krsmanović-Tasić, Maja Mitić
Music: Nebojsa Ignjatovic
Director: Dijana Milosevic
Scenography/video: Neša Paripović
Sound: Brian Ginn
Stage manager: Heidi Howard
Texts:
Brown, TE – My Garden; Carroll, Lewis – Alice Through the Looking Glass; Conquergood, Dwight – Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty; Georgia State Department of Corrections – The Execution of Yvonne Ray Stanley; Jankovic, Ivan – Death in the Presence of Power; Kafka,
Franz - The Trial; Knopp, Fay Honey - 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.
Photo: Heidi Howard

The realization was helped by:
Independent Projects Awards CEC ArtsLink and Trust for Mutual Understanding