Severnpix Publishing have released Elgar and Alice written by Peter Sutton. The play was first performed at the Swan Theatre in Worcester in June 2007 to mark the composer’s 150th anniversary.
This play takes place in Elgar’s later years, March 1920, to be exact and focuses on Elagar’s relationship with his music, and the women in his life, namely his wife Alice and his mistress Windflower.
We find Lady Alice desperately seeking approval from her husband for her poetry, at the same time dealing with her terminal illness. Elgar is critical, dismissive, and at times derogative about her poetry, and the audience get the impression that he has little, if no concern for his wife’s feelings. However we see a different side to him when Lady Alice Stuart of Wortley, affectionately known as Windflower, arrives. She is, and has been, Elgar’s muse, and we get the impression that their relationship was more than professional; also that Windflower wasn’t Elgar’s only muse.
Chris Peach reviews this new play.
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