William Ivory (above) is a leading attraction at the Graham Greene International Festival 2012 in Berkhamsted (Hertfordshire, England, UK).
An outline of the programme is given below. More details may be seen on the printed Handbook and the Festival's website.
Graham Greene International Festival 2012:
The Programme
Berkhamsted (Hertfordshire, England, UK)
Wednesday 26th September – Sunday 30th September 2012
Festival Director: Prof. Neil Sinyard (University of Hull, UK)
The Festival is sponsored by Greene King plc.
Wednesday 26th September
19:15 – 22:00
Pre-Festival Event, Literary Quiz, Town Hall, Berkhamsted
Entry costs £8 per person, and can be secured by contacting Pippa Brush by telephone on 0044-1442 869555 or by e-mail at pippa.brush@stfrancis.org.uk
All proceeds from the quiz will be donated to the Hospice of St Francis in Berkhamsted.
Thursday 27th September
16:30 – 18:00
An event for Berkhamsted School’s Senior Students. Old Hall, Berkhamsted School
Neil Sinyard speaks to senior English students at Berkhamsted School.
This event includes the announcement of the titles for the GGBT Creative Writing Awards for 2013.
17:30 – 19:15
Social Gathering and Buffet Supper. The Gatsby, High Street
Tickets: £15
19:30 – 21:45
Film Night at The Rex Cinema, Berkhamsted
Film: The Human Factor (1979)
(115 mins; UK; Director, Otto Preminger; starring Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson, John Gielgud and Derek Jacobi)
Classification: 15
Introduced by Richard Combs (film critic, lecturer and broadcaster)
Tickets: £8
Friday 28th September
Morning Session
Town Hall, Berkhamsted
9:45 – 11:00
‘Researching Greene’
PhD scholars discuss their work on Graham Greene. Contributors include Creina Mansfield, Martyn Sampson and Sarah Prescott.
11:00, Break for Tea and Coffee
11:30 – 12:45
Professor Kevin Ruane (Professor of Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University)
‘The Hidden History of Graham Greene’s Vietnam war’
Tickets: £12
12:45, Break for Lunch
Afternoon Session
Town Hall, Berkhamsted
14:15 - 15:30
Prof. François Gallix (Paris-Sorbonne University)
‘Greene, Spies and MI6’
15:30, Break for Tea and Coffee
16:00 - 17:30
Prof. Adam Piette (University of Sheffield)
‘The Third Man, Underground Intelligence and the Freudian Cold War’
Tickets: £12
Evening Session
Civic Centre, Berkhamsted
19:30
Film: The Tenth Man (1988)
(100 minutes, UK; Director, Jack Gold; starring Anthony Hopkins, Kristin Scott Thomas and Derek Jacobi)
Classification: PG
Introduced by Jack Gold (film director) who will also lead a post-film discussion
Tickets: £10
Saturday 29th September
Talks and Events in Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School
Morning Session
9:45 – 11:00
Ian Thomson (author)
‘Graham Greene in Tallin’
11:00, Break for Tea and Coffee
11:30 – 12:45
Dr. Christopher Hull (University of Nottingham)
‘Sex, Drugs and Communism: Greene’s visits to Cuba’
Tickets: £14
12:45, Break for Lunch
Afternoon Session
14:15 – 15:15
Prof. Peter Evans (Film Studies, Queen Mary, University of London)
‘Belgravia, Vienna, Havana: Carol Reed in Greeneland’
15:15, Break for Tea and Coffee
15.45 – 16.45
Prof. Thomas P. O'Connor introduces a screening of his own documentary film, Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene (USA, 2012)
Early Evening Session
Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School
18:15 – 18:45
Book Launch
Dr. Jon Wise and Mike Hill present The Works of Graham Greene: A Reader’s Bibliography and Guide by Jon Wise and Mike Hill (London and New York: Continuum, 2012, 416 pages)
and
Birthday Toast
Proposed by the Principal of Berkhamsted School, Mark Steed
18:45 – 20:00
Quentin Falk (author and critic)
‘Film adaptations of Greene’, an illustrated talk
Tickets: £12
Late Evening Session
Old Hall, Berkhamsted School
20:15
Dinner
Followed by after-dinner speaker Clive Francis (actor, caricaturist and illustrator)
Tickets: £33
Saturday 29th September Alternative Event
Deans’ Hall, Berkhamsted School
9.30 – 16.30
A New Creative Writing Workshop
A freshly devised one-day course on the relationship of character and plot in Prose Fiction and Screenplay
This event includes detailed analysis of Graham Greene's The Basement Room (later re-titled The Fallen Idol) as prose fiction and The Third Man as a screenplay, as a stimulus to participants' own writing.
It also includes the announcement of the titles for the GGBT Creative Writing Awards for 2013, breaks for tea or coffee and attendance at the Interview with Sir Derek Jacobi at 16:15.
Advance booking is essential to guarantee a place on the Creative Writing Workshop.
Workshop Leaders: Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone (novelist and short story writer) and William Ivory (lower image above) (screenwriter for BBC TV and film and playwright).
Tickets: £35.00
Sunday 30th September
9:00 – 9:45
David Pearce (Founding Trustee and former Festival director, lecturer and author of 'Stamboul Train: The Timetable for 1932' in Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene)
Tour of some areas of the School especially associated with Graham Greene
Prior registration: essential. Meeting point: Old Hall
Free of charge
Morning Session Only
Talks in Newcroft, Berkhamsted School
10.00 – 11:00
Dr. Brigitte Timmermann (author of The Third Man's Vienna and 'Sigmund Freud and Graham Greene in Vienna' in Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene, lecturer and researcher)
‘The Third Man - A comparative text analysis’
11:00, Break for Tea and Coffee
11:30 – 12:45
Prof. Neil Sinyard (Festival Director)
‘Temple of Doom: some reflections on Graham Greene, Wee Willie Winkie and the Shirley Temple controversy’
Tickets: £14
Farewell Lunch in Old Hall
13:00 – 14:30
Buffet lunch with wine
Tickets: £22
Prof. Neil Sinyard: Festival Director
Prof. Sinyard taught in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Hull (England, UK). His many publications include 'Graham Greene and Charlie Chaplin' in Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene (2011), Graham Greene: A Literary Life (2003), Jack Clayton (2000), Clint Eastwood (1995), Silent Movies (1995), Mel Gibson (1993), Marilyn (1992), Classic Movies (1988), Films of Steven Spielberg (1987), Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation (1986) and Journey Down Sunset Boulevard: Films of Billy Wilder (1979).
Full details of the programme may be seen on the Festival’s website and in the printed Handbook.
Details of the programme may change. Changes may be seen on the Festival website or on its Facebook page.
Tickets may be ordered in three ways:
(i) by post from the Box Office, 42, Grange Road, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 5NQ, England, UK
(ii) by telephone on 0044-1279-757517, or
(iii) by e-mail from boxoffice@grahamgreenebt.org
