Saturday 24th October 2015
9.30am – 4.30pm
Study Day Programme
9.30-9.45 Arrival and coffee
Welcome – Mike Page, County Archivist
9.45-10.30 Zoe Karens - A soldier writer: selected highlights from the R C Sherriff collections at Surrey History Centre. Zoe was archivist for the RC Sherriff Project at Surrey History Centre and catalogued over 100 boxes of Sherriff's papers.
10.30-11.20 Michael Lucas - 'The Gallants' - RC Sherriff's front line service.
Michael is a military historian and author of several articles focused on Sherriff and the East Surrey Regiment, including the book, Journey's End Battalion: The 9th East Surrey in the Great War (Pen & Sword Military, 2012)
Michael will be accompanied by Andrew Lucas and Ian Houghton, military living history enactors
11.20-11.50 Coffee break
11.50-12.40 David Grindley and Robert Gore-Langton - Journey's End: The beginning of a Dramatic Legacy.
David directed the 75th Anniversary production in 2004. Scheduled to run for 8 weeks in the West End, it played 18 months before travelling to Broadway, where it won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Revival. Currently; he is working on the film adaptation of the play. Robert is an arts writer, theatre critic for the Mail on Sunday and author of Journey's End: the classic war play explored (Oberon, 2013)
12.40-13.40 Lunch. There will be time to talk to the enactors about their artefacts
13.40-14.30 David Cottis - Sherriff as a Screenwriter: the (mostly) Invisible Man.
David is a Theatre Director and Screenwriting Lecturer and currently completing a Ph.D on the screen careers of Sherriff and other British stage playwrights.
14.30-15.20 Juliet Gardiner - Fruit drops for a lion: RC Sherrif, an acute observer of everyday life.
Juliet is a writer, broadcaster and historian who has written extensively about the Home Front in the Second World War, and is the author of The Thirties: an Intimate History (Harper Press 2010).
15.20-15.40 Tea break
15.40-16.30 Roland Wales - Searching for the elusive Mr Sherriff.
Roland is a writer, researcher, and author of the forthcoming biography From Journey's End to The Dam Busters: The life of trench playwright R C Sherriff (Pen and Sword).
16.30pm Discussion and close
This is a free event, but tickets need to be booked. Please book online at www.surreycc.gov.uk/heritageevents, in person at Surrey History Centre or in any Surrey Library, or phone 01483 518737.
Tea and coffee will be provided throughout the day but attendees will need to make their own lunch arrangements.
Persephone Books will be launching the reprint of Sherriff's 1936 novel "Greengates". Some speakers will be selling signed copies of their books by private arrangement so it is advisable to bring cash or cheques on the day.
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