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Green Fest: A Double Feature

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The Paul Green Foundation and EbzB Productions bring to Greenville a one-day film festival celebrating North Carolina’s preeminent playwright Paul Green, author of The Lost Colony, which has been performed in Manteo every summer since 1937 (excluding WWII blackout and COVID isolation summers).

The event includes a double feature: the PBS documentary The Playmaker: The Story of Paul Green and the film The Problem of the Hero, based on the play Native by Ian Finley about the collaboration between Green and Native Son author Richard Wright as they adapted Wright’s novel Native Son for an Orson Welles Broadway production.

1 to 6 PM in ECU’s Main Campus Student Center Blackbox Theater

The event is free and open to the public and will include an intermission and snack break between films at about 2:30 PM.

You are welcome to attend both or either film.
The documentary, The Playmaker: The Story of Paul Green, will begin at 1:00 PM, and we will reconvene in the Blackbox Theatre at 3:15 for the film, The Problem of the Hero.

A discussion with the filmmakers, actors, editors of a new collection of essays on Paul Green, and Eastern NC playwright Jim Grimsley will immediately follow the movie screening.

For more information, contact NCLR Editor Margaret Bauer at 252-328-1537 or bauerm@ecu.edu.