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

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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