David Cassidy on the Web
Arts diary: Catty remarks add some colour to the great arts funding debate
30 July 2010
By Tim Cornwell
http://news.scotsman.com
Bit of a Partridge
SPEAKING of crooners, the oracle has spoken. Could it Be Forever? is a play that follows the fortunes of three teenage friends meeting up decades later and revisiting their crush on David Cassidy. "There is a moment in our formative years when loving your parents is not enough," the play's promo materials declare, "and we discover our capacity for passion by yearning for the unobtainable. At that crossroads anything is possible… and then along came David Cassidy."
Now the great man has has posted on his website, saying he is "extremely flattered" to be the subject of said work. "I have been aware of the Festival for decades now," he writes, "and have been so impressed by original plays and productions presented there. Being the subject of the artistic imagination often humbles me. Knowing that I've had a significant impact on other human beings, I have always tried to bring light into other peoples' lives. Projects such as this merely confirm this belief." Glad to know that he's "been aware" of us for decades, but the work's writers/actors Lucie Fitchett and Victoria Willing have now showered him with invitations and will surely go gooey at the knees if he decides to grace us with his presence.
