Lit & Phil Reading Group: My Dinner With André by W. Shawn & A. Gregory + film

SEPTEMBER: My Dinner With André by Wallace Shawn & André Gregory + film

Next time we are going to discuss My Dinner With André, both the film directed by Louis Malle and the screenplay written by Wally Shawn and André Gregory for the film.

From the back cover of the book:

“My Dinner With Andre is a passionate, volatile, and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide to catch up on each other’s lives over dinner. André Gregory is an intense, highly experimental theater director and playwright in search of life’s meanings and spiritual revelations. His friend Wally Shawn is an actor and playwright living in New York who is more preoccupied with the search for his next meal. As André recounts his global journeys involving esoteric theatrical experiments and mystical adventures, Wally listens with more than skepticism, as his attitudes shift among wonder, puzzlement, admiration, and anger. What finally emerges is a sensitive portrait of a friendship that survives and transcends contrasting assumptions about love, death, art, and man s continuing quest for self-fulfillment.”

We hope you can join us!

Screenplay
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fh91CG0tzUrvnQh5tBElIdndPKxWOypo/view?usp=sharing

Film
https://archive.org/details/my-dinner-with-andre-720p

HOW? Everyone is welcome to the discussion. The only requisite to participate is having read the novel beforehand, because discussions are on topic. Bring your thoughts, questions, and the passages you have underlined!

WHERE? In DISCORD: Our online meeting will take place in Discord, so please make sure to join our Discord group beforehand!

Here is the invitation to our group:
https://discord.gg/DEcXZDgXZj

If you have any doubts or you are not familiar with this platform, please send me a message and I’ll help you.