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KMS-Newsletter-Issue Issue 29 April 2018 Society ISSN 2040-2597 (online) Published by the Katherine Mansfield Society, Bath, England Contents ‘KM’s Second visit to Bandol: A special weekend commemoration’ by Gerri Kimber p. 3 ‘Une hivernante célèbre à Bandol’: Bernard Bosque et Coralie Buchoul-Bosque p. 6 CFP: KM Studies vol. 11 p. 8 Report: Postgraduate Day at Queens’ College, Cambridge by Joe Williams p. 10 CFP: International Conference ‘New Directions’ p. 12 Alex Lodge & Cherie Jacobson’s play Modern Girls in Bed: an interview p. 13 Ben Hoadley’s opera Miss Brill: an interview p. 18 Review: Ben Hoadley’s opera Miss Brill by Christine Alexander and Chryssy Tintner p. 20 Announcement: Essay Prize ‘KM & Elizabeth von Arnim’ p. 22 The Daughters of the Late Colonel: A new play by Grant Gillespie p. 23 Announcement: KMS Annual Birthday The Red Hat by Myna Arndt Oil on canvas c. 1914 Te Papa Lecture ‘KM & D. H. Lawrence’ p. 24 Museum of New Zealand ‘Garnet Trowell: A bit Wilde?’ p. 25 Te Papa Tongarewa ‘Reflections from Wellington’ by Jane Chapman: p. 27 Issue 29 April 2018 2 2 Welcome to Issue 29 of the Katherine Mansfield Society Newsletter. The multi- lingual reports from Bandol commemorations are a testament to the hard work of the instigators Gerri Kimber and Bernard Bosque and also the cross-cultural reach of our favourite writer. I only wish I could have been there! A new generation necessitates a fresh perspective on the past. For a glimpse of the themes faced by KM scholars read Joe Williams report on the post-grad day at Queen’s College held just before Easter. Also don’t forget to check out the online journal Heron, which is a dedicated online, open access forum for creative writers from around the world, who are inspired by KM, to showcase their work. In the premier March issue former newsletter contributors Jan Kemp and Tracey Miao are featured writers: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/heron/ This issue of the newsletter has a focus on the dramatic, musical and visual responses to KM. We are pleased to be able to share background information on Grant Gillespie’s yet-to-be-performed play The Daughters of the Late Colonel. Likewise you can enjoy Q& A interviews with three talented Kiwi artists, including Ben Hoadley whose recent opera Miss Brill premiered in Sydney earlier this year. Less well known but similarly talented, Alex Lodge & Cherie Jacobson are both playwrights and I am pleased to introduce them here to our readers. For those with an interest in the visual arts check out KMS newsletter contributor Susan Wilson’s exhibition at The Pah Homestead in Auckland [information at https://tsbbankwallaceartscentre.org.nz/events/ ] and Jane Vial’s informative article on Myna Arndt [available at https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/. ] whose painting ‘The Red Hat’ features on the cover of this newsletter. Arndt was a contemporary of KM who died at a similarly young age. She spent several years training in London before returning to her home city of Wellington. Finally, special thanks must go to KMS chair Gerri Kimber whose ongoing support is vital for putting this newsletter together. Also thanks to Daniel Smith for sharing his photo of Garnet Trowell. Please consider making a contribution yourself to the next newsletter published in August. These should be sent to: mailto:[email protected] Martin Griffiths, ed. We are pleased to announce that Wayne Drew is the winner of our prize, Pierce Butler’s book, A Child of the Sun. Wayne correctly identified Adèle Kafian as Lithuanian. To enter our next competition answer the following: What was Garnet Trowell’s middle name? If you are struggling to remember, think of the name of a painter in the Bloomsbury group. The winner will receive all six copies of the KM Birthday lecture booklets (2010-2017). Entries to mailto:[email protected] 1 Issue 29 April 2018 3 3 A special weekend commemorating Katherine Mansfield’s second visit to Bandol by Gerri Kimber On February 23, 24 and 25, the KMS commemorated the centenary of Katherine Mansfield’s second visit to Bandol, with a very special weekend of events organised by KMS member Bernard Bosque, with the support of the town of Bandol, in particular Mrs Molinier from the Cultural Service, as well as Mr Jean-Marie Schneider, President of the Bandol Authors’ Circle, as well as Mr and Mrs Martinez, owners of the Villa Pauline. Two delegations from Fontainebleau-Avon and Gray were also present and it was wonderful to have their support as they had travelled across France to take part in the weekend. During the course of the weekend our thoughts were very much with Janine Renshaw-Beauchamp (granddaughter of Mansfield’s youngest sister Jeanne), who was to have been the guest of honour, but who, due to ill health, was sadly unable to be with us. Mansfield set out for this second trip to Bandol on 7 January 1918 alone. It was wartime, and her companion Ida Baker had been refused a travel permit. She finally arrived in Bandol on 11 January. Bernard Bosque had organised a packed weekend of events for us to enjoy, starting on Friday 23 February with a walking tour of Marseilles, looking at all the places that Mansfield recorded having visited on her first trip in 1915/16 and again in 1918. The group started at the Gare Saint-Charles and Bernard’s itinerary took in the Hotel Oasis, the Thomas Cook Travel Agency, the offices of the P & O shipping line and the Café de la Samaritaine, where the group stopped for lunch. Later on Friday, the delegates reconvened in the Salle Marcel Pagnol in the centre of Bandol for the official opening of the conference in the presence of the Cultural Deputies from both Bandol and Avon. This was followed by a vin 2 Issue 29 April 2018 4 4 d’honneur hosted by the town of Bandol. Sylvie Léger, an English teacher at the Lycée International François I in Fontainebleau then delighted us with a witty dramatisation of Mansfield’s story ‘Late at Night’. The evening concluded with a talk by Bernard Bosque accompanied by a very detailed slide show, recapping the various stages of Mansfield’s visits to Marseilles. On the afternoon of Saturday 24 February, the participants met again at the Salle Marcel Pagnol, for a two-part programme. The afternoon kicked off with another dramatization by Sylvie Léger, this time an excerpt from Mansfield’s story ‘An Indiscreet Journey’. The story is a loosely fictional account of Mansfield’s original journey to Gray to meet Francis Carco which had taken place on 19 February 1915, exactly three years before her first pulmonary hemorrhage which occurred at the Hotel Beau Rivage on 19 February 1918. Bernard Bosque then enthralled the audience with another wonderful talk, accompanied by a remarkably comprehensive slide presentation, detailing Mansfield’s two visits to Bandol (December 1915 - April 1916 and January - March 1918). Both of Bernard’s slide shows can be viewed on the KMS website: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/bandol- 2018/ and we are immensely grateful to him for sharing his research with the KMS community. 3 Issue 29 April 2018 5 5 On the morning of Sunday 25 February, the delegates participated in a walking tour of Bandol, taking in many of the places Mansfield is known to have visited during her two stays in the town. This included the Hotel Beau Rivage, and ended at the Villa Pauline, where the current owners, Mr and Mrs Martinez, generously allowed us into their house and garden as well as offering us an aperitif – a truly fitting way to end this wonderful weekend. Bernard Bosque, together with his wife, Coralie Buchoul Bosque, are to be congratulated for putting together yet another magnificent event in France, where Mansfield spent so much of her adult life and where she is buried. 1 Issue 29 April 2018 6 6 Une hivernante célèbre à Bandol Bernard Bosque et Coralie Buchoul-Bosque La KMS commémorait les 23, 24 et 25 février dernier le centenaire du deuxième séjour de KM à Bandol. Le programme des trois jours était le suivant : • vendredi 23 : Escapade pédestre dans les rues de Marseille au départ de la Gare Saint-Charles pour découvrir les lieux fréquentés par KM durant les hivers 1915-1916 et 1918. Notre promenade nous a menés successivement à l'Hôtel Oasis, à l'emplacement de l'agence Cook et du bureau de la P&O ainsi qu'au Café de la Samaritaine où nous nous sommes restaurés. Sur le chemin du retour, nous avons évoqué les deux nuits passées au Grand Hôtel de Russie et d'Angleterre. En soirée, ouverture officielle de la manifestation par le Docteur Gerri Kimber, Présidente de l'association, en présence des adjoints à la culture des villes de Bandol et d'Avon. Sylvie Léger, professeure d'anglais au Lycée International François Ier de Fontainebleau nous a ensuite régalés d'une théâtralisation pleine de piquant et de sensibilité de la nouvelle "Late at Night". Bernard Bosque a clôturé cette journée en reprenant, dans une conférence assortie d'un diaporama, les différentes étapes des séjours marseillais de KM. o 2 Issue 29 April 2018 7 7 o samedi 24 : Les participants se sont retrouvés dans l'après-midi à la salle Pagnol, gracieusement mise à disposition par la ville de Bandol, pour un programme en deux parties. Sylvie Léger a tout d'abord mis en scène un extrait du "Voyage Indiscret" qui fut l'occasion de rappeler que cette aventure grayloise s'est tenue le 19 février 1915, soit précisément trois ans, jour pour jour, avant la première hémorragie pulmonaire subie par KM à Bandol durant son deuxième séjour à l'Hôtel Beau Rivage.
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