[ecrea] Edwardian Drama on the Small Screen symposium, BFI, 23 May

The University of Westminster Screen Plays research project is holding a 
symposium on Friday 23 May in the Blue Room, BFI Southbank, London in 
order to explore some of the issues arising from the associated FI 
Southbank season Edwardian Drama on the Small Screen, curated by John 
Wyver, which presents six programmes of television productions of plays 
written between the 1890s and the First World War 
(https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/edwardiandrama). The Edwardian era is 
perennially popular on television, and the texture of the time has 
frequently been realised through studio productions of plays from those 
years. Sumptuous settings are part of the appeal, as are performances by 
the most accomplished actors of the day. But the best of these plays – 
by by Oscar Wilde, Harley Granville-Barker, George Bernard Shaw, John 
Galsworthy, J. M. Synge and D. H. Lawrence - are also complex and 
challenging reflections of their moment.

Participation in the symposium is free, but seats are limited and 
booking is advised: please email (amanda.wrigley /at/ gmail.com) if you wish to 
attend. Everyone is welcome.

Programme

1.15pm Arrival
1.30pm Introduction, by John Wyver

1.45pm Keynote Lecture: Dr Billy Smart, Research Officer, Royal 
Holloway, University of London, ‘Edwardian values, 1970s television: 
John Galsworthy on BBC1’

2.30pm Dr Michelle Paull, Senior Lecturer in Drama, St Mary’s 
University, London, ‘An Ideal Husband - a realistic marriage? Wilde, 
feminism and Britain’
3.00pm Dr Leah Panos, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Reading, 
‘Colour, Cartier and An Ideal Husband’

3.30pm Tea

3.45pm Dr Amanda Wrigley, Research Fellow, University of Westminster, 
‘J. M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea in its schools television context’
4.15pm John Wyver, Senior Research Fellow, University of Westminster, 
‘The Shavian screen: how and why is Bernard Shaw the second most 
performed playwright on British television?’

4.45pm Interview with Robert Knights, director of The Voysey Inheritance 
(1979, screened on 15 May), as well as The History Man (1981) and The 
Glittering Prizes (1976) and many other television dramas including 
productions for Play for Today and an episode of the BBC series The 
Edwardians (1972).

5.15pm Plenary discussion, with a glass of wine
6.00pm Screening of Galsworthy’s Strife (book tickets directly through 
www.bfi.org.uk)

(With apologies for cross-posting.)

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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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