ISBN10: 0374102732, ISBN13: 9780374102739, [publisher: New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1993] Hardcover First Edition 1st Printing. Signed. 117 pages. Published in 1993. The author's debut play. Now considered a late-modern classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Susan Sontag's "Alice In Bed: A Play In Eight Scenes". Her first and only published play. A meditation on what it means to be a woman in the Modern Age. The subject is seen through the historically accurate portrait of its main character, Alice James, the genius-sister of Henry and William James. It was written by the author for the great Italian actress, Adrianna Asti, who commissioned Sontag to write a "challenging and unusual" theatrical role that would require her to be onstage the whole time. Sontag's utterly simple and brilliant solution: Keep her lying in bed onstage for all eight scenes, a dramatic way of capturing the predicament of Alice James, immensely talented but perennially ill, who spent most of her brief life bed-ridden. "Alice In Bed" has been staged by some of the world's greatest directors, including Robert Wilson, the cutting-edge American theatre visionary, and Ivo Van Hove, the innovative Dutch stage director, among others. ...
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