Pretty Little Room
Composer: Robert Patterson
Librettist: Jerre Dye
Company: Opera Memphis
| Performance Dates | |
|---|---|
| Friday, March 06, 2026 | |
| Saturday, March 07, 2026 | |
Synopsis
Pretty Little Room jumps back in time to 1892 to tell the true crime story of Alice Mitchell, who brutally murdered Freda Ward. In order to prevent Ward, her lover, from boarding a steamboat called the Ora Lee and leaving for a new life in rural Golddust, TN, Mitchell took her father’s razor and walked across river ice to confront her runaway lover. She slashed Ward’s face and was subsequently committed to the Western State Mental Hospital in Bolivar, TN, where the pulpy and portentous “Pretty Little Room” unravels like a fever dream. - Chris Davis