Alexander Findley

When they were very little, Alexander and Felicité were mostly always alone. Left to their own devices, they would entertain one another with plays and stories, acting out the passages left to the children’s nursery. Where Felicité treated such a pastime as simply playing with her brother, Alexander fell dreadfully in love. Though it was their father’s preference that his daughters see beyond the confines of social expectation, it was Alexander who took such a lesson to head. He would beg his parents to take him to the Oxford theatres, in which he watched visiting troupes perform anything from new scripts to Shakespearian tales. His mother was distressed by her son’s whimsical nature, his father even more so since the boys were meant to follow a more academic path like his own! So, what happened? As his sisters escaped the nest by means of marriage (or in Fi’s arrangement, education), Alexander was forced to contend with expectation. Though he went to school and was known for his moderate intelligence, Alexander would give most of his time to the arts, to the point in which he was known locally as an actor. Some years ago, Alexander joined his sister Felicité and Evangeline’s household to try and find work as an actor in London, and with some pinch of success (the amount, how and where is UTP) Alexander has worked on the stage — to the point that he now rents a home of his own in the city. Success is for the taking, but can he truly stand the disappointment of his father? The fans call him Earnest, Sympathetic & Passionate. The critics claim him as Boisterous, Provocative & Vulnerable.