Hull Literature Festival 2001 | 8th - 18th November |
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{Friday 9th November} | |
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Graham Greene Film Matinee:
Trevor Howard gives one of his finest performances as the tormented Scobie in this atmospheric adaptation of Graham Greene's novel focussing on the machinations of the human conscience. The setting is 1940's Sierra Leone, Scobie is a Catholic and a Deputy Commissioner in the local police force but his sympathy for the locals does not go down well with the colonial authorities. His problems intensify when his wife returns to 'Blighty' for a holiday and he becomes romantically involved with another woman opening himself up to the threat of blackmail. At the heart of the matter is the theme of God's capacity for forgiveness ('Our Man in Havana', the second Graham Greene film adaptation in this short retrospective will be shown Friday 16th Nov at 2.00pm) Friday 9th November
4.00pm - 5.00pm FREE
'Double Talk' with
Performance poets Trevor Millum and Bernard Young will be holding workshops for local school children throughout the day, culminating in a performance including poems from their well-known book 'Double Talk', and poems produced by the children in the workshops. 'Double Talk' has been published this autumn by Kingston Press, Hull City Libraries' own imprint, and will be on sale at the performance. Friday 9th November
7.30pm �5 (Conc �3.50)
"I Love You, Brad"
The comic strip has evolved into a distinct literary genre, whose characters reflect the codes, conventions and society in which they are created. Comic strip creators invent our fantasies, Everyman and Everywoman dressed up in different guises: Andy Capp, Superman, Captain Marvel, Wonderwoman, Lara Croft��.. LEAP dance company's Humber Mouth commission takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the creation of comic strip fantasies, its characters and what happens when they refuse to play the game. Friday 9th November
8.00pm �4 (Conc �2.50)
Wrecking Ball Fringe Festival presents:
The poems of Clare Pollard's first collection The Heavy-Petting Zoo (Bloodaxe, 1998) were mostly written while she was still at school in Bolton.
Antony Dunn won the 1995 Newdigate Prize while reading English at St.Catherine's College, Oxford. His first collection of poems, Pilots and Navigators, was published by Oxford University Press in 1998, and his second, Flying Fish, will be published by Carcanet next year. He also writes for film and stage and lives in York where he works as a Marketing Manager for Riding Lights Theatre Company and Friargate Theatre |