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Davies Family / Re: Play about Peter Davies
« on: November 30, 2009, 08:06:55 PM »
Peter would actually have only been 34 at the time of his first meeting with 80 year old Alice in 1932. So they were at very different places in their lives, which makes the meeting all the more interesting.
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Davies Family / Re: Play about Peter Davies
« on: November 18, 2009, 06:20:01 PM »
A good thing to remember Andrew. Also interesting to note that Barrie, in 1932 was still alive. Davies was only 34, recently married and perhaps just on the cusp of dealing with the emotional tidlewave that would begin the road towards his eventual suicide.

Its an interesting juxtoposition to Alice, aged 80, who would seemingly be past any of the issues of her relationship with Carrol, and yet faced with the sensationalist Freudien ideas of the 1930s that began to examine these Victorian/Edwardian child/author celebrations as a sort of latent subconcious pedophilia.

I'm intrigued by this idea of these children now adults, faced with these immortal fictional identites gifted to them before they were really old enough to aquire identities of their own. To what degree were they influenced by their fictional selves and to what degree did they resent or feel obligated to honor this rare gift given, no doubt with love, by two eccentric men who society later dictated had quesstionable motives.
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Davies Family / Re: Play about Peter Davies
« on: November 17, 2009, 07:09:23 PM »
Hi Andrew! Hi Stacey!

Lovely to read your posts. Ironically, I am just visiting the site and the forum for the first time today, as I've recently been commissoned to write a play 'inspired' by the meeting of Peter Davies and Alice Liddell in 1932 for production at two regional theatres in the United States in 2011.

Though I think where my project will differ from yours, Stacey is that I believe what I'm to write won't be a pure biography of Mr. Davies - but will rather focus on the complex themes of identity in the face of maturation as experienced by Alice and Peter in the face of being the child muses for such complicated men as Lewis Caroll and J.M. Barrie.

The similarities of the relationships between the Carroll/Lidell sisters and Barrie/Davies boys is fascinating and eerily similar. Both stories surrounded by a certain idealism of youth, a healthy amount of loss and estrangement, unclear motives, dutiful obligation, family regret and of course love.

Its going to be a fun project to work on - and I'm really grateful to have found this site, Andrew to help foster research and ideas. And lovely to read, Stacey that another artist is also working on a creative piece about Davies. There is room for a 100 plays on Barrie and the remarkable story of the people who surrounded him!
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