According to Miss Alice and her lawyer and butler, there is, at minimum, Alice.
There may be life inside the model there may be God. What he finds inside Miss Alice's mansion is a tremendous model of. An eccentric millionaire known only as Miss Alice wants to grant the Catholic Church a tremendous sum of money Julian is assigned to see to the details. (The WSC's production opened Monday.) Director John Vreeke's staging slowly builds a sinister tone until what the audience has on its hands is a metaphysical horror show.Īt its simplest level, "Tiny Alice" is about a Catholic lay brother named Julian (the part Gielgud played). But it does tantalize it's powerful and strange, and you can see why the Washington Shakespeare Company would want to have a go at it. With its hints of an alternate universe and an unexplained crew of schemers, "Tiny Alice" is a little too pretentious and ultimately ambiguous to do more than tantalize audiences.
Even its author, Edward Albee, termed this work "a mighty peculiar play." The meaning of the words "God" and "Alice" become interchangeable in "Tiny Alice," a 1964 drama that perplexed its original star, John Gielgud.
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