Darling Edith, and Others at Salisbury Museum

Artist Rex Whistler was 19 when he met 53-year-old Edith Olivier of Wilton, who became a lifelong friend and introduced him to Wiltshire.  His letters to her and to other friends and patrons form the basis of Darling Edith, and Others, which Studio performed at the invitation of Salisbury Museum in its new Lecture Hall from June 11-14. It’s one of a series of events running in conjunction with the Museum’s major exhibition of Whistler’s work, marking the 80^th anniversary of his death on the battlefields of France in 1944.

Written by Museum volunteer Christine Mason after researching the extensive portfolio of correspondence the Museum holds, and adapted by Lesley Bates for Studio, eight actors plus aristocrats, socialites and the Bright Young Things read the letters of Rex Whistler.