Programme for October 2008 to January 2009
Tuesday 30 September
Programme for the year ahead and development of the society – Andrew
Milne-Skinner
Venue: Club rooms
Time:15:00
Tuesday 7 October
Weekly meeting
Music and movement with Claudia Harbringer
Venue: Club rooms
Time:16:45
Wednesday 8 October
Talk: From Pygmalion to Educating Rita by Andrew Milne-Skinner, preceded
by sale of English books
G.B. Shaw’s play Pygmalion charts the language and social training as well as the subsequent
rebellion of Cockney flower-seller Eliza Doolittle in Edwardian England. Willy Russell’s Educating
Rita, by contrast, deals with the self-emancipation of Liverpudlian hairdresser Rita through
studying at the Open University.
Venue: University Hörsaal E Altes Gebaüde, 2nd floor
Time: Book sale: 19:00 Talk: 20:00
Monday 13 October
New Activity!
Launch of regular Pub Quiz with Matt Firth
Venue: The Galway Bay Pub, side entrance, (opposite the SOWI), Innsbruck Time: 20:15 (tbc)
More information at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mattspubquizibk
Tuesday 14 October
Weekly meeting Film: Educating Rita
Venue:Club rooms
Time:17:00
Film adaptation of Willy Russell’s play about hairdresser Rita who discovers an intellectual life
and an escape from her hairdressing parlour and suffocating marriage through the Open
University. Features fine performances from well-known English actors Michael Caine and Julie
Walters.
Wednesday 15 October
Workshop for teachers: Using ‘Educating Rita’ in the classroom
Venue: University Neubau Room 205, 2nd floor Time:19:30
This workshop for Oberstufe teachers will explore practical ways of using the play in English
classes.
Tuesday 21 October
Weekly meeting
Film: The History Boys
Venue: Club rooms
Time: 17:00
A successful dramatisation of Alan Bennett’s play about young men at an English secondary
school preparing for their final exams while moving from adolescence to adulthood.
Tuesday 21 October
Highlight of the Season!
Theatre production by International Theatre Vienna: Educating Rita
Venue: Ursulinensäle, Innrain 7
Times: 14:30 – 17.00 and 19:30 – 22:00
Tickets: €15, (Students and Pupils €10)
To celebrate the relaunch of our Society we have organised two live performances of Willy
Russell’s play. It is an enjoyable and heart-warming story about Liverpool hairdresser Rita, who
discovers an intellectual life and an escape from her hairdressing parlour and suffocating
marriage through the Open University. Tickets for the evening performance can be booked and
collected from the Institut fuer Anglistik, Innrain 52/3, Tel 0512 507 4151 weekdays between
9.00am and 12 noon from 1st October. Afternoon performance already sold out!
Tuesday 28 October
Weekly meeting
Film: Atonement
Venue: Club rooms
Time: 17:00
The film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel about love across social divides set against the
background of the Second World War, also featuring a brutally realistic depiction of the British
experience at Dunkirk in 1940.
Wednesday 29 October
Talk: The Genius of Charlotte Bronte by Sandra Milne-Skinner
Venue: University Hörsaal 1(Josef-Moeller-Haus)
Time: 19:30
While keeping her father company after a cataract operation in Manchester, Charlotte Bronte
started writing Jane Eyre, one of the most famous and enduring novels in the English language.
This talk explores the influences on her genius, her extraordinary family, her life and her work – a
fascinating insight into a writer who strove, above all, to live as an individual in a world where
women were defined not as themselves, but by the men who ruled their lives.
Tuesday 4 November
Weekly meeting
Music and Movement with Claudia Harbringer
Venue: Club rooms
Tuesday 4 November
Film: Jane Eyre, (BBC 2006) Part 1
Time: 16:45
Venue:University Neubau, Room 205, 2nd floor
Time:19:30
This is an opportunity to see the BBC’s acclaimed dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte’s classic
novel featuring well-known British actor Toby Stephens as Mr Rochester and newcomer Ruth
Wilson as Jane Eyre. Part 2 is shown next week. (n.b. This film is also being shown at the
Society’s Club Rooms on 11th and 18th November at 17.00)
Tuesday 11 November
Weekly meeting Film: Jane Eyre (BBC 2006), Part 1
Venue:Club rooms
Time:17:00
Another opportunity to see the Part 1 of the BBC’s acclaimed dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte’s
classic novel featuring well-known British actor Toby Stephens as Mr Rochester and newcomer
Ruth Wilson as Jane Eyre. Part 2 is shown next week in the Club Rooms.
Tuesday 11 November
Film: Jane Eyre, Part 2
Venue:University Neubau, Room 205, 2nd floor
Time:19:30
Part 2 of the BBC’s acclaimed dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel
featuring well-known British actor Toby Stephens as Mr Rochester and newcomer Ruth Wilson as
Jane Eyre.
Wednesday 12 November
Talk: ‘British Humour Today’ by Jon Carlisle, University of Innsbruck
Venue: University Hörsaal 1 (Josef-Moeller-Haus)
Time: 19:30
British humour has undergone many changes in the post-war period. From end-of-the-pier
humour through Hancock, the Goons, Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies, we now have
a huge range on offer, from sitcoms to stand-up comics.
Tuesday 18 November
Weekly meeting Film: Jane Eyre, Part 2
Venue:Club rooms
Time:17:00
Another opportunity to see Part 2 of the BBC’s acclaimed dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte’s
classic novel featuring well-known British actor Toby Stephens as Mr Rochester and newcomer
Ruth Wilson as Jane Eyre.
Tuesday 25 November
Weekly meeting Film: Vera Drake
Venue:Club rooms
Time:17:00
Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that
leads to tragedy for her family. Mike Lee’s frank film about the consequences of illegal abortion
for one 1950’s British family. This film, which was released in 2004 and nominated for 3 Oscars,
features a wonderful performance by Imelda Staunton as Vera Drake.
Wednesday 26 November
Talk: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, by Andrew Milne-Skinner, preceded by
sale of English books
Venue:University Hörsaal 1 (Josef-Moeller-Haus) Time: Book sale 18:30
Talk: 19:30
The mid 19th century English artists’ fraternity included Rossetti, Hunt and Millais, among others.
Their wish to redefine art in early Renaissance terms focused on realism and naturalistic detail.
Their work was often inspired by contemporary Victorian poetry.
Tuesday 2 December
Weekly meeting Music and Movement with Claudia Harbringer
Venue:Club rooms
Tuesday 9 December
Weekly meeting Film: The Hours
Venue:Club rooms
Time:16:45
Time:17:00
One of the most acclaimed films of 2002, The Hours is a film about three women of different
generations and times whose lives are interconnected by Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs Dalloway.
The screenplay was written by David Hare, based on Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize
winning 1998 novel, and the film was directed by Stephen Daldry. Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep
and Julianne Moore star.
Tuesday 16 December
Christmas Party
Venue:Club rooms
Time:19:30
Come and join us for some seasonal cheer, British-style. Christmas cake, mulled wine and mince
pies, among other tasty morsels, will be on offer and perhaps we will be lucky enough to have a
visit from Santa!
Tuesday 13 January 2009
Weekly meeting
Film: Carrington
Venue:Club rooms
Time:17:00
Carrington is a film about the life of the English artist Dora Carrington. The film, starring Emma
Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey,
played by Jonathan Pryce, as well as with other members of the Bloomsbury Group. It won the
Jury Special Prize at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, where Jonathan Pryce also won Best Actor
for his performance as Lytton Strachey.
Tuesday 13 January
Workshop for teachers: Using ‘Virgins’ in class
Venue:University IMOF 5th floor Time:19:30
This workshop for Oberstufe teachers will explore practical ways of using the play in English
classes.
Thursday 22 January
Theatre performance by Vienna’s English Theatre: ‘Virgins’
Venue: A school in Innsbruck, tbc Time:10:15
Cost € 6.80 (includes text) per person
John Retallack’s new play is particularly suitable for Oberstufe pupils and University students. It
looks at a family of four who hit crisis point when seventeen-year-old Jack-the-lad contracts a
sexually transmitted infection from a party he can’t remember. Without resorting to stereotypes, it
deals with the constantly evolving teen/parent bond, exploring the transition to adulthood and the
strain it causes in their parents’ relationship.
30 places already reserved with an option on a further 20. .
Tuesday 27 January
Talk: False friends or true friends - translators’ howlers by Hazel Zeiner
We know we shouldn’t really laugh at people’s innocent attempt to translate into English, but
Hazel will take us through some of the more amusing results.
Venue:Club rooms
Time:19:30
Regular activities:
English conversation: Tuesdays 15:00 to 16:00 in the club rooms (starting
October 7th), followed by Afternoon Tea 16:00 to 17:00.