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Peter Pan / Re: Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Hated Mothers
« on: February 25, 2010, 10:09:53 AM »
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JMBarrie / Re: Had a couple dreams about Barrie
« on: February 21, 2010, 11:12:53 AM »
I don't dream of him: I spend my whole life in his own dreams and he is my dream.
But I often experience strange coincidences: one day I was at Edinburgh airport (back from Kirriemuir) and - as I hate to take a plane - I said loudly something like "Hey, Jamie, please, tell me everything will be OK!" A few seconds later, a man sat beside me. This man wore a hook. I am not kidding. My husband, who is a doctor, told me: "How strange it is ! Nowadays we don't see such hooks anymore. Oh, it's just a coincidence." I replied it was a special message from Barrie to me. He laughed. A few second later, another man sat in front of me. He wore a shirt with the words Jolly Rogers written upon it.
Plenty of things like this regularly happen to me. I took some pictures.
But I often experience strange coincidences: one day I was at Edinburgh airport (back from Kirriemuir) and - as I hate to take a plane - I said loudly something like "Hey, Jamie, please, tell me everything will be OK!" A few seconds later, a man sat beside me. This man wore a hook. I am not kidding. My husband, who is a doctor, told me: "How strange it is ! Nowadays we don't see such hooks anymore. Oh, it's just a coincidence." I replied it was a special message from Barrie to me. He laughed. A few second later, another man sat in front of me. He wore a shirt with the words Jolly Rogers written upon it.
Plenty of things like this regularly happen to me. I took some pictures.
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Peter Pan / Re: Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Hated Mothers
« on: February 12, 2010, 12:54:01 PM »
On Wednesday I attended the rehearsals of Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Hated Mothers, in Marseille.
I really loved what I saw.
This is the first time I have ever seen such an amazing Peter Pan.
I am not saying this because I translated Andrew's play, or because I contributed some ideas.
The main work is not mine.
I am not easily impressed - I vomited during the performance of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens last summer! - but can honestly say that I am really enthusiastic about this production.
The actress (Fanny Avram) who 'gives life' to Peter Pan is a dancer, and is absolutely GREAT!
I like the cast and the crew.
Peter Pan the Punk!! - a wonderfully anarchic staging.
Mrs. Darling is Hook, and, trust me, you will be scared!
It won't be a play 'for children', or Disneyesque, thank God.
I am sure Barrie would be very gratified that he has been taken seriously.
I uploaded some (bad) photographs here:
http://www.picnik.com/show/id/7006499271_JWRw3/t/peter-pan-au-thtre-du-gymnase
before uploading them my own website for the French.
Stay tuned! I will post something else later.
The premiere is on February 26th.
I really loved what I saw.
This is the first time I have ever seen such an amazing Peter Pan.
I am not saying this because I translated Andrew's play, or because I contributed some ideas.
The main work is not mine.
I am not easily impressed - I vomited during the performance of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens last summer! - but can honestly say that I am really enthusiastic about this production.
The actress (Fanny Avram) who 'gives life' to Peter Pan is a dancer, and is absolutely GREAT!
I like the cast and the crew.
Peter Pan the Punk!! - a wonderfully anarchic staging.
Mrs. Darling is Hook, and, trust me, you will be scared!
It won't be a play 'for children', or Disneyesque, thank God.
I am sure Barrie would be very gratified that he has been taken seriously.
I uploaded some (bad) photographs here:
http://www.picnik.com/show/id/7006499271_JWRw3/t/peter-pan-au-thtre-du-gymnase
before uploading them my own website for the French.
Stay tuned! I will post something else later.
The premiere is on February 26th.
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Peter Pan / Re: Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Hated Mothers
« on: January 19, 2010, 09:12:06 AM »
I will be in Kirriemuir; I will be honoured and happy to be there.
Even if every word of the dialogue is Barrie's it's also your admirable work. The end of the adaptation is wonderful and the way you shaped Barrie's different drafts of Peter Pan into this play is marvellous. I daresay this adaptation is better than the original play that everyboby knows. I hope the director did a great job. Let's keep our fingers firmly crossed.
Even if every word of the dialogue is Barrie's it's also your admirable work. The end of the adaptation is wonderful and the way you shaped Barrie's different drafts of Peter Pan into this play is marvellous. I daresay this adaptation is better than the original play that everyboby knows. I hope the director did a great job. Let's keep our fingers firmly crossed.
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JMBarrie / Re: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Grow Up
« on: January 13, 2010, 12:12:57 PM »
By the way...
In my eyes "The boy who would not grow up" and "the boy who didn't want to grow up" don't have exactly the same meaning. Am I totally wrong?
In the boy who "would not grow up," there is ambiguity: who was not going to grow up; who refused to grow up: both meanings are equally possible. Likewise with "who could not grow up": was not able to grow up (as a blind man can not see) or could not afford to grow up (without destroying his world, his freedom, etc.) for physical or psychological reasons. Michael is a miniature PP when he says "I will not take a bath," "I will not take my medicine." He is dragged several times from the world of play and imagination to the world of adult reality and power. He refuses to behave, the boy who would not take a bath. I could just as easily say, "the boy who *could* not take a bath" (without being torn from the world of play, without losing his role in the game being played). PP *can* not grow up without losing his identity and he *will* not (both senses) grow up for that reason.
That's why I am not content with French translations because "Would not grow up" is always translated into French as if the title were "The Boy Who Didn't Want to Grow Up". From my point of view something important is lost. "would not" is more subtle than "didn't want to". So I prefer to consider that Peter Pan is a boy who was not going to grow up without explaining why (he couldn't or he simply didn't want to). And it is even more complex.
What do you think about that? (And sorry for my poor English.)
In my eyes "The boy who would not grow up" and "the boy who didn't want to grow up" don't have exactly the same meaning. Am I totally wrong?
In the boy who "would not grow up," there is ambiguity: who was not going to grow up; who refused to grow up: both meanings are equally possible. Likewise with "who could not grow up": was not able to grow up (as a blind man can not see) or could not afford to grow up (without destroying his world, his freedom, etc.) for physical or psychological reasons. Michael is a miniature PP when he says "I will not take a bath," "I will not take my medicine." He is dragged several times from the world of play and imagination to the world of adult reality and power. He refuses to behave, the boy who would not take a bath. I could just as easily say, "the boy who *could* not take a bath" (without being torn from the world of play, without losing his role in the game being played). PP *can* not grow up without losing his identity and he *will* not (both senses) grow up for that reason.
That's why I am not content with French translations because "Would not grow up" is always translated into French as if the title were "The Boy Who Didn't Want to Grow Up". From my point of view something important is lost. "would not" is more subtle than "didn't want to". So I prefer to consider that Peter Pan is a boy who was not going to grow up without explaining why (he couldn't or he simply didn't want to). And it is even more complex.
What do you think about that? (And sorry for my poor English.)
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JMBarrie / Re: James and Mary
« on: January 13, 2010, 11:27:59 AM »
I would be delighted to take time to scan documents for your database.
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Davies Family / Re: Michael as Peter Pan
« on: September 17, 2009, 05:37:48 PM »
God! I am late.
He or she did it on purpose, I guess. A little game. There are plenty of neurotic or simply stupid persons like that on forums. They have nothing to do in the whole day and they try to provoke people because they have nothing more in life. Find his or her IP's address and banish him or her from the forum. It's easy. I am for the "tyrannical" manner with these sort of décérébrés.
Piers Dudgeon's book is horse shit, that's all. Nothing more to prove or to discuss. He wants scandals, it's obvious. He is nothing. He is not even original in his false assertions.
Andrew is the man on Earth who knows Barrie the best and he is a talented man in many ways. No one did and will do better than him to explain Barrie's heart and soul. Take that, petite tête!
And MLD, if you read me and I am sure you do, pisse-froid, petit émasculé de mes deux, if you attack Barrie or Andrew, I consider that you attack me personally. Be careful, I am not as polite as the gentlemen and the women on this forum... Beat it!
He or she did it on purpose, I guess. A little game. There are plenty of neurotic or simply stupid persons like that on forums. They have nothing to do in the whole day and they try to provoke people because they have nothing more in life. Find his or her IP's address and banish him or her from the forum. It's easy. I am for the "tyrannical" manner with these sort of décérébrés.
Piers Dudgeon's book is horse shit, that's all. Nothing more to prove or to discuss. He wants scandals, it's obvious. He is nothing. He is not even original in his false assertions.
Andrew is the man on Earth who knows Barrie the best and he is a talented man in many ways. No one did and will do better than him to explain Barrie's heart and soul. Take that, petite tête!
And MLD, if you read me and I am sure you do, pisse-froid, petit émasculé de mes deux, if you attack Barrie or Andrew, I consider that you attack me personally. Be careful, I am not as polite as the gentlemen and the women on this forum... Beat it!
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Peter Pan / Re: Michael Jackson RIP
« on: August 14, 2009, 09:08:42 AM »I've read several times that Michael Jackson gave Peter Pan "a bad name". I disagree. When in 1982 I was asked by The Observer to give my opinion on the rumoured casting of M J as P P in Spielberg's proposed film, I said I thought Barrie would be "turning in his grave... with exhiliration". Of course this was not what the reporter wanted to hear - at the time most P P purists considered such an idea to be sacrilege - but I meant it, although I doubt Spielberg would have had the vision to pull it off (not if the execrable Hook was anything to go by). It seemed to me that M J, in those days, possessed that elusive quality Tyrone Guthrie felt essential in any actor playing Peter: to be at once "as delicate as a moth, as deadly as a bomb". And boy, did he know how to fly! Whether he could have pulled it off we'll never know, but it would have been a brave try; and I sure hope he's now having more fun in the real Neverland than he ever had in that ersatz pile he built to house himself in this life. RIP
God!!!!
I wish I could have written these words.
Exactly what I think.
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Davies Family / Re: Rupert Buxton: a short life, by Nicholas McAulay
« on: August 14, 2009, 08:59:03 AM »
I will translate it for my website. Nicholas asked me if I could do it and I will do it!
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General topic / Re: Sir J.M. Barrie .com
« on: August 14, 2009, 08:49:16 AM »
As George Shelton
(http://www.sirjmbarrie.com/peter_pan/Smee_2.jpg)
would say: "It's Smee"...
My website is still under construction. I hope to improve it before 2011...
I've got a bunch of pictures, documents and translations that are waiting to be published... The website could also have another face soon. Don't worry, I write better French! I can't write English but I can read it pretty well.
)
And, of course, I owe A LOT to Andrew. Who doesn't? I wouldn't upload a website dedicated to JMB if I weren't French, because nobody in the entire world can do better and more than Andrew.
(http://www.sirjmbarrie.com/peter_pan/Smee_2.jpg)
would say: "It's Smee"...
My website is still under construction. I hope to improve it before 2011...
I've got a bunch of pictures, documents and translations that are waiting to be published... The website could also have another face soon. Don't worry, I write better French! I can't write English but I can read it pretty well.
)And, of course, I owe A LOT to Andrew. Who doesn't? I wouldn't upload a website dedicated to JMB if I weren't French, because nobody in the entire world can do better and more than Andrew.
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JMBarrie / Re: JMB-150
« on: August 14, 2009, 07:41:30 AM »
What a marvellous thing to read!!!!
I will also be there.
I will also be there.
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