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Theatre Plays on British Television conference

Registration is now open for the one-day Theatre Plays on British Television conference at the University of Westminster, London, Friday 19 October 2012. The conference is organised by the AHRC-funded project Screen Plays and will tackle issues and topics within the broad area of theatre plays on British television from 1930 to the present. Participation from scholars and postgraduate students working on the histories of broadcasting, media, drama, theatre and culture is welcome. Coffee will be available from 8.45am, the programme will begin at 9.15am and the conference will close at6.15pm.

Registration
The £25 conference fee includes lunch and refreshments. To register, please download the registration form and follow the instructions for (a) submission of the form to Helen Cohen at Westminster and (b) payment online or by cheque (n.b. select ‘MAD Conferences & Events’ from the menu). Please register before Friday 5 October 2012. General queries: a.wrigley@westminster.ac.uk.

Programme
The programme will consist of four panels, a plenary discussion, wine reception and screening event, as follows:

  • The classical repertoire

Lisa Bolding (Department of English, University of Georgia)
‘The Duchess of Malfi and early British television’
Russell Jackson (Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham)
‘Stage to TV, Britain to America: the case of Peter Hall’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1959’
Daniel Rosenthal (independent scholar)
‘Public vs. Private: how the BBC and British Home Entertainment fought to televise National Theatre productions, 1963-67’

  • Regional theatre, regional television

Lez Cooke (Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘From stage to screen: the television plays of Peter Cheeseman’s Victoria Theatre Company in Stoke-on-Trent’
John Wyver (School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster)
‘Granada’s experiment with the Stables Theatre Company, 1969-1970’
Ben Lamb (Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan)
‘The Roses of Eyam: reassessing the theatrical legacy of studio-shot television drama’

  • Society and politics, media and genre

Ruth Adams (Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London)
‘Abigail’s Party: “It’s not a question of ignorance, Laurence, it’s a question of taste” ’
Amanda Wrigley (School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster)
‘Theatre, Education, Television: the BBC and the Open University in the 1970s’
Cyrielle Garson (Département d’études anglophones, Université d’Avignon)
‘Remediating the real: an examination of verbatim plays on television in the new millennium’

  • Spaces of television, spaces of theatre

Billy Smart (Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading)
‘Three different Cherry Orchards, three different worlds: Chekhov at the BBC, 1962-1981’
Jonathan Bignell (Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading)
‘Screen and stage space in Beckett’s theatre plays on television’
Stephen Lacey (Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan)
‘Television’s natural disposition? An analysis of Naturalism and performance in relation to the BBC’s Performance series’

Plenary discussion and wine reception

Screening with introduction (with clips from productions of plays by Fugard, Gorky and Shakespeare):
Lisa Kerrigan (Television Curator, British Film Institute)
‘Recordings and rediscoveries: the WNET collection at the Library of Congress and the BFI National Archive’

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