Peter and Alice is a play by American writer John Logan based on the
meeting of 80-year-old Alice Liddell and Peter Llewelyn Davies, then
in his thirties, in a London bookshop in 1932, at the opening of a
Lewis Carroll exhibition. The production was directed by Michael
Grandage and was performed by Judi Dench as Alice and Ben Whishaw as
Peter.The play is based on a meeting between Alice Liddell Hargreaves,
the woman who inspired Alice, and Peter Llewellyn Davies, one of the
boys who inspired Peter Pan, at the opening of a Lewis Carroll
exhibition in 1932. The play sees enchantment and reality collide as
this brief encounter lays bare the lives of these two
characters.Understudies include:Reviews for the production were
positive for the play. Michael Billington in The Guardian wrote: "It's
not a play that shocks or startles by its insights, but the reward
lies in watching Dench and Whishaw recreate the agony and the ecstasy
of inherited fame.". Charles Spencer in The Telegraph wrote: "It’s a
beautiful and searching play that will live long in the memory". Libby
Purves in The Times wrote "A meeting of two childhood muses, played by
Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw, breaks your heart open". However, there
was some criticism of the play. Henry Hitchings in The Evening
Standard wrote: "this is a piece that uses lush language to compensate
for its lack of real dynamism". Peter and Alice Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter