Alice in the Pandemic at White Snake Projects

Led by creator and librettist Cerise Jacobs, the company has managed not only to quickly and ingeniously adapt to the changed performing arts environment, postponing until spring the originally slated premiere of composer Elena Ruehr's poli-sci-fi opera Cosmic Cowboy, but even to surpass its own reputation for cutting-edge innovation. The result is an up-to-the-minute version of Lewis Carroll's timeless story, in which Alice is now a nurse who must navigate her way through a distorted and unfamiliar landscape to find her sick mother and, ultimately, herself.