Graham Greene: Greenhouse.Game of the consequences of God's miracle in the family of a sworn agnostic in a great cast

Even for the enlightened lovers of the novels of the English writer Graham Green, it is a surprise that he also wrote several theater games.In proportion to 24 novels, 8 theater games are more of a marginal part of the author's work.However, this does not indicate their quality and communication, on the contrary, in the context of the theater production at that time and today we must only regret that Graham Greene did not devote to the drama more consistently.

Searching for a higher sense

Even in stories designed for the stage Greene developed their permanent themes.In the drama Greenhouse gave a picture of a man who, without the truth about his own past, cannot live his present life.Editor James Callifer is another of Green's heroes who are painfully looking for a higher sense in their lives, if not a straight plan of God.

The greenhouse (1958) begins on the death day of the agnostic thinker Henry Callifer.The devoted wife Mary gather around the death bed the whole family, with the exception of the younger son James.It seems that only his presence could make a dying undesirable manner.Nevertheless, James will appear in the parent house, as his thirteen -year -old niece Anne, who wants to come to the mystery around her favorite uncle on the joint.

James is an editor in Nottingham.He and his wife Sara broke up because he was unable to love anyone;suffers from empty, depression and does not want to live.It is treated with no avail in the nottingham psychiatrist and has suicidal thoughts.The cause of James's problems is a kind of childhood event that is related to the greenhouse in the Callifer's Garden, but James cannot remember her despite all his efforts.

The secret of a garden greenhouse

So Anne will play on the detective as she says herself.He finds two witnesses to James's youth - the wife of the then gardener and then above all James's uncle William Callifer, a Catholic priest who had a great influence on the boy.Their testimonies will finally reveal an ancient secret whose core is an inexplicable, supernatural event for which the atheistic family did not find a satisfactory explanation and therefore James ejected from her circle.Paradoxically, agnosticism that should have liberated a person from religious superstition, ie in Green's game leads to a lifelong lies.

The greenhouse is actually a thrilling detective story with an existential overlap, its radio form was filmed by director Markéta Jahodová in translation by Radek Pokorný with Vladimír Javorský, Daniel Kolářová, Josef Somr, Jan Hartl, Ladislav Mrkvička, Klára Cibulková and other actors in 2012 in 2012.

A piece of life of Graham Green

As Graham Greene admitted a piece of life (1971) in the memoir book, perhaps into everything he wrote, he turned his childhood memories, the good and the bad ones.This is doubly true for the theater game Greenhouse and its main character James Callifer, whose biography truly strikingly reminds of known facts from Green's life.

Graham Greene was born in 1904 to the family director of a prestigious boarding high school as the fourth of six children.He suffered from an early age with an emotional detachment of both parents.As a child, Graham Greene was timid and solitary, in the wider circle of the family he attached only to one of his uncles.

When he joined the boarding school that his father was driven, his classmates were instinctively considered traitors, which greatly suffered.He solved the unbearable situation by wagon and tried to demonstrate several times to suicide.On the advice of an elder brother, the family sent a boy to psychiatric healing in London.Treatment consisted of psychoanalytic sessions, the patient was given the task of doing a dream diary.On that occasion he discovered the psychotherapist the boy's literary talent.

A distinctive turning point in Green's life brought acquaintance with the future wife Vivien Dayrell-browning in 1925.Under her influence he converted to Catholicism, which proved to be a fundamental circumstance for his other personal and literary future.