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[ecrea] CFP: Edwardian Drama on the Small Screen symposium

Mon Mar 24 20:55:47 GMT 2014




Call for Papers: ‘Edwardian Drama on the Small Screen’ symposium

BFI Southbank, Friday 23 May 2014


George Bernard Shaw is, after Shakespeare, the playwright who has been most frequently adapted for British television. The works of Oscar Wilde, John Galsworthy and Harley Granville-Barker were also frequently seen on the small screen between the 1940s and 1990s. The textures of the ‘long’ Edwardian era from the 1890s to the First World War have been central to television’s presentation of British theatre plays.



Throughout May 2014, BFI Southbank in collaboration with the Screen Plays research project will screen six programmes of Edwardian drama, including Rudolph Cartier’s 1969 production of Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, Harley Granville-Barker’s Waste directed by Don Taylor in 1977 and Katie Mitchell’s remarkable 1995 presentation of D. H. Lawrence’s The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd. Full details of the season are available here: http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/classics-on-tv-edwardian-drama-on-the-small-screen-a-bfi-southbank-season.



To accompany Classics on TV: Edwardian Drama on the Small Screen, Screen Plays and the University of Westminster is organising a half-day symposium on the afternoon of Friday 23 May. The event will include a keynote lecture by Dr Billy Smart, Royal Holloway, University of London. Following on from the symposium there will be the opportunity to see the 1988 BBC production of Galsworthy’s Strife directed by Michael Darlow.



Proposals are invited for papers tackling issues and topics related to any aspect of Edwardian theatre plays on television. In order to encourage an interdisciplinary discussion we welcome proposals from scholars and postgraduate students working on the histories of broadcasting, media, theatre and performance.



Proposals in the form of a 250-word abstract and brief biography should be submitted to both John Wyver ((john /at/ illuminationsmedia.co.uk)) and Dr Amanda Wrigley ((a.wrigley /at/ westminster.ac.uk)) by 9 April 2014.


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


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