How to solve a problem like Ethel Rosenberg? Or Alice in Wonderland? Both are sentenced to death, one in a fairy tale, the other in real life. Great trials and great literary works meet in this co-production, which explores what the background of these and other death penalty stories from both cultures have in common. As today’s headlines show, an exciting trial is the best theatre.  [2005]

Cast: Faye Allen, Del Hamilton, Aleksandra Jelić, Sanja Krsmanović-Tasić, Maja Mitić
Music: Nebojša Ignjatović
Directed by: Dijana Milosević
Set/Video Design: Neša Paripović
Sound: Brian Ginn
Stage manager: Heidi Howard
Texts:
Brown, T.E. – My Garden; Carrol, Lewis – Alice Through the Looking Glass; Conquergood, Dwight – Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty; Georgia State Department of Corrections – The Execution of Ivon Ray Stanley; Jankovic, Ivan – Smrt u Prisustvu Vlasti; 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.
Photography: Heidi Howard

Realization supported by:
Independent Projects Awards CEC ArtsLink and Trust for Mutual Understanding