The Cheshire Cat’s grin appears in the darkness, floating without a face.
She looks at the audience—the real audience, in 1976, in some grindhouse theater—and whispers: The Cheshire Cat’s grin appears in the darkness,
“OFF WITH HIS PAYCHECK!” the Queen screams. Two CHESHIRE CATS (twins, identical to the first, shirtless and oiled) drag him away. A long table covered in empty champagne bottles,
A long table covered in empty champagne bottles, tilted top hats, and lines of white powder. THE MAD HATTER (a manic, balding producer with glitter under his eyes) shouts, “CHANGE PLACES!” every thirty seconds, forcing everyone to move one seat down and take the previous person’s drink or pill. sun. ALICE (19
The neon is dead under the hazy L.A. sun. ALICE (19, innocent but jaded, wearing a crocheted tube top and frayed bell-bottoms) sits by a fountain, sketching a wilting daisy in a spiral notebook. She’s bored. The summer of love is a decade old; now it’s just litter and bad deals.