AWW23: For the Love of Language - Terence Davies

Chair: Neil Armfield

Over his 40-year career in filmmaking, Terence Davies has explored the lives of some of the great writers of the 20th century – Edith Wharton, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Terence Rattigan and Siegfried Sassoon. It is the inner life at the domestic hearth that has been his preoccupation. No contemporary filmmaker has plumbed the nature of the literary life with greater respect for the text. He joins Neil Armfield AO, Australia’s pre-eminent director of theatre, film and opera, to explore how literature is transformed in other art forms.

Event details: Sun 05 Mar, 9:30am on the West Stage