| Sex and Power at the Beau Rivage by Lewis Davies |
| First presented in 2003 by Theatr y Byd |
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synopsis: Gripping and emotionally charged, the production explores the dilemmas facing two writers who have sought refuge in the fading glamour of a South of France coastal resort. The writers are D. H Lawrence and Rhys Davies, a Valleys-born writer who was greatly inspired by the challenge the older man made on the sexual and literary conventions of his day. A catalyst for their encounter is the volatile figure of Frieda Weekley, Lawrence’s wife and muse. Sex and Power at the Beau Rivage has been researched and set in the real life hotel where the young novelist from the Welsh Valleys first encountered his volatile hero - and Frieda Weekley, his equally volatile wife. The play is a love triangle with a difference: a fusion of historical fact, literature, art and the antics of two men (and a woman) behaving badly. Lewis Davies is a novelist as well as playwright and he is also publishing editor for Parthian who have recently reprinted A Human Condition, a collection of short stories by Rhys Davies. Born in the Clydach Vale, near Tonypandy, Rhys Davies published 40 books and was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 1968. His name lives on in the bi-annual Rhys Davies Award, a competition for short story writers living and working in Wales |
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