How are the Characters Once Deleted from Manuscripts? – Announcing ‘Deleted.’

picture from Enid Davis/Story Friends' website on https://storyfriends.org/wiseowlplayers/

by Laura Lai/ Uncategorized

At the beginning of 2019 I started a specialization writing course at the University of Oxford. And in spring, I completed the Writing Drama (Online) Course. It was also a great opportunity of a stay in the beautiful and historic city of Oxford. On this occasion I visited the Oxford University Press Museum and I posted the blog article ‘Oxford University Press Museum: A Free Guided Tour’. I spontaneously got the inspiration for a children’s chapter book ‘Christmas in Oxford’. I strongly believe that for the best accomplishment of a journey – in this case the writing drama one – all details are important: the place you live and/or study, the lectures, the tutor(s), the colleagues, and sometimes (or for some people) even the weather.

A great example of will to learn and to improve the theoretical knowledge, to teach and to stage at any age is my colleague Enid Davis – a wife, a mother and a grandmother, an author, a storyteller, a teacher and a drama director. After retiring as a children’s librarian in 2012, Enid Davis founded and chaired the Los Altos Fest (2013–2016). And in 2017 she founded ‘The Wise Owl Players’, a senior theater group (50+), who under Enid’s direction performs live before the public.

            On September 14^th and 15^th, 2019 Enid Davis will be directing ‘The Wise Owl Players’ at the Mountain View Centre for Performing Art (MVCPA) in California.  The senior players will play in ‘Deleted.’ (for a compressed version 2, please click here), which was first performed on November 3^rd and 4^th, 2018 in Palo Alto (California).

            ‘Deleted.’ is a 2-hour play written by Enid Davis based on a very original idea: a dialogue between eight characters (males and females, older and younger, and from different time periods) who were deleted by their authors from their manuscripts. Have you ever wondered what eight fictional characters deleted by their authors may think about themselves or each other? Or what they do? Whom they can possibly meet? – A librarian, maybe?! Have you ever wondered about the way they may react if the whole chapter disappears from the manuscript? Enid Davis invites you all on September the 14^th and the 15^th to the literary comedy written as a dramatic reading and played by ‘The Wise Owl Players’: ‘Deleted.’