ECU to host one-day festival featuring N.C. novelist, playwright Paul Green

GREENVILLE, N.C. (10/8/2024) — East Carolina University’s North Carolina Literary Review will host a one-day festival with a double-feature documentary and movie screening highlighting North Carolina novelist and playwright Paul Green from 1-6 p.m. Oct. 19 in the Main Campus Student Center, Black Box Theater.

The event is free and open to the public and will include a 45-minute intermission and snack break between films at 2:45 p.m. The public is welcome to attend both or either film.

The double feature begins with the screening of the PBS North Carolina documentary “The Playmaker: The Story of Paul Green.” After the intermission, “The Problem of the Hero” will begin at 3:30 p.m. This film is based on a play from eastern North Carolina playwright Ian Finley about the collaboration between Green and author Richard Wright, as they adapted Wright’s novel “Native Son” for an Orson Welles Broadway production.

A discussion with the filmmakers, actors and playwrights will immediately follow the final screening.

Green was a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of the historical drama “The Lost Colony,” which has been performed outdoors in Manteo each summer since 1937, excluding the blackouts for World War II and COVID isolation. He was a champion for racial equality, and he was posthumously inducted into New York City’s Theatre Hall of Fame in 1993 and the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 1996.

Watch a preview of “The Playmaker.” Watch a preview of “The Problem of the Hero.”

A crowdfunding campaign is underway to support the award-winning NCLR. Contributions allow NCLR to feature new and emerging authors, and reintroduce authors, like Paul Green, who have influenced the culture and history of North Carolina.

This event is sponsored by the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, the NCLR, The Paul Green Foundation and EbzB Productions. Individuals requesting accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) should contact the ADA coordinator at least 48 hours before the event at 252-737-1018 or by emailing ada-coordinator@ecu.edu.

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