[ecrea] CFP 'Theatre Plays on British Television' conference, University of Westminster

Call for Papers: ‘Theatre Plays on British Television’ conference, 
University of Westminster, Friday 19 October 2012



The first conference arising from the AHRC-funded research project 
Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television will be held at the 
University of Westminster on Friday 19 October 2012.



Screen Plays is concerned with all plays written for the theatre that 
have been produced for British television since 1930. The project 
documents and develops new critical approaches to the television 
presentation of these plays, seeking to understand the institutional, 
production, technological and aesthetic contexts for these adaptations 
within both broadcasting and British theatre. More can be read about the 
project’s aims and activities on the blog at 
http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com. The permanent page for the 
conference is http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2012-conference.



Proposals are invited for papers and panels tackling issues and topics 
within the broad area of theatre plays on British television from 1930 
to the present. In order to encourage a truly interdisciplinary 
discussion we warmly welcome proposals from scholars and postgraduate 
students working on the histories of broadcasting, media, drama, theatre 
and culture.



Possible topics for examination and exploration include, but are not 
limited to, the following:

• The forms and screen languages of British television presentations of 
theatre plays.

• Studies of particular genres, plays or playwrights across time.

• The changing social and cultural meanings of theatre on television and 
the ways in which these were regarded and exploited by broadcasters in 
particular historical circumstances.

• The extensive commercial and cultural relationships between the 
theatre, individual companies and television.

• The movement of practitioners between the spheres of theatre 
andtelevision.

• The institutional, production, technological and aesthetic contexts of 
these adaptations within both broadcasting and British theatre.

• Audience and reception studies into how viewers engaged with these 
productions.

• The evolution of what may be regarded as the ‘normative’ style of 
studio drama, and the development of new forms within and beyond the studio.

• The post-1980s decline of theatre on British television and the recent 
revival of interest in its possibilities in the multi-platform age.



Proposals in the form of a 250-word abstract and brief biography (or 
200-word panel outline,with accompanying individual abstracts and brief 
biographies), should be submitted to both John Wyver 
((john /at/ illuminationsmedia.co.uk)) and Dr Amanda Wrigley 
((a.wrigley /at/ westminster.ac.uk)) by 29 February 2012. It is intended that 
the conference will give rise to an edited collection of essays on 
theatre plays on British television.



Apologies for cross-posting.


John Wyver

Dr Amanda Wrigley


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Dr Amanda Wrigley, Research Associate
Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television
University of Westminster
http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com
http://amandawrigley.wordpress.com


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