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Literature at Lunchtime with Dr Jane Mackay

media/events/EM_Forster.jpg 06 Mar 08
Category: Professional
Venue: Theatre

Talk
12 noon
£5.00 / £4.50 concessions

 

EM Forster 'A Passage to India'

 

A Passage to India is set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s.


The story revolves around three characters: Cyril Fielding, his Indian friend Dr. Aziz, and Adela Quested. During a trip to the Marabar Caves, Adela accuses Aziz of attempting to rape her.


Aziz's trial, its run-up and the aftermath, bring out all the racial tensions and prejudices between indigenous Indians and the British colonists who rule India.
Join Dr Jane Mackay as she looks at how E.M. Forster employed his first-hand knowledge of India to write this, arguably his best novel.


Selected as one of the 100 great works of English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.


Stay for the 2.00pm showing of A Passage to India and pay only £1.50 for a film ticket!

Learn more about Dr Jane Mackay and her talks at Literature Live

http://www.literature-live.net

A Passage to India (PG)

media/events/Passage_to_India2.jpg 06 Mar 08
Category: Film
Venue: Theatre

Follows Lit at Lunch Talk
2.00pm noon
£2.50 / £2.00 concessions

 


Director:  David Lean
Running Time: 163mins
Starring: Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Vistor Banneries


David Lean's adaptation of EM Forster's novel turned out to be the master director's final film.


Subtle and grand at the same time, Lean's adaptation is faithful to the book, rendering its blend of the mystical and the all-too human with exquisite precision.
Judy Davis plays a young British woman travelling in India with her fiancé's mother.

While visiting a tourist attraction, she has a frightening moment in a cave--one that she eventually spins from an instant of mental meltdown into a tale of a physical attack that ruins several lives.


Lean captures Forster's sense of awe at the kind of ageless wisdom and inexplicable phenomena to be encountered in India, as well as the British tendency to dismiss it all as savage, rather than simply different.

 

All films lincensed to show by Filmbank Distributors Ltd.