"Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey" received generally positive reviews from critics, particularly on the festival circuit.
She boarded without checking the schedule. The conductor, a man with a face like a coin rubbed smooth by decades, tipped his cap and said nothing. His silence felt like permission. The carriage moved and unmade the city: buildings blurred into smudges, alleys became sketches. With each mile the map in Alice's head rearranged itself, streets she knew opening into new gardens, alleys yawning into long, liminal corridors lined with doors. fidelio alices odyssey full
The narrative asks a brutal question: How far will you degrade yourself and the one you love to survive? alleys yawning into long