For the Love of Language

Terence Davies live streamed from London

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.

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Neil Armfield’s work in theatre includes: I’m Not Running, National Theatre (NT); Cloudstreet Belvoir, NT and world tour; Diary of a Madman in Russia, Australia and NYC; Exit the King in Australia and on Broadway; The Book of Everything in Australia and NYC; The Judas Kiss in Australia, UK and US; The Secret River Australia tour, Edinburgh Festival and NT. In opera, Brett Dean’s Bliss and Hamlet at Glyndebourne and Adelaide Festival and various operas for companies including ENO, Royal Opera House, Chicago Lyric Opera, Zurich Opera, Bregenz Festival, Opera Australia, Canadian Opera, Welsh National Opera, Washington National Opera and Houston Grand Opera. Neil recently directed Rameau’s Platée for Pinchgut Opera. He directed the feature films Candy (2006) and Holding the Man (2015).

Terence Davies is a screenwriter, film director and novelist, and has been described by The Evening Standard as “Britain’s greatest living film director”. Many of his films are meditations on the literary life: Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton and Terrence Rattigan. His latest film, Benediction, is about the English war poet, Siegfried Sassoon.

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