[ecrea] CFP: Theatre and Television conference

Theatre and Television:

Adaptation, Production, Performance

a University of Westminster conference, marking the end of the

AHRC-funded research project ‘Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British 
Television’,

Alexandra Palace, Thursday 19 and Friday 20 February 2015



This conference is the culminating event of the AHRC-funded research 
project ‘Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television’. It will be 
held at Alexandra Palace on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 February 2015.



The programme is packed with a rich variety of talks from leading 
scholars in the field, including a keynote lecture from Professor 
Stephen Lacey of the University of South Wales and a special event in 
which Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, 
talks about Shakespearean productions on television and the cinema 
screen. In addition, the public version of the Screen Plays database 
will be launched and a walking tour of Alexandra Palace as the 
birthplace of television will enable the topic to be grounded in its 
earliest production contexts.



The £40 conference fee includes all refreshments, a wine reception and 
lunch on the second day of the conference. Prompt booking is advised: 
numbers are strictly limited to 50 seats; there are currently 15 places 
left. To register, please contact Dr Amanda Wrigley on 
(a.wrigley /at/ westminster.ac.uk).



Further information will be posted on the conference website at 
http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/conference-2015.



Provisional programme



Thursday 19 February 2015

The conference opens at 1pm (with coffee, registration and welcome) and 
runs to 7pm, followed by an informal dinner (not covered by the 
conference fee).



Keynote lecture + discussion

Stephen Lacey, Emeritus Professor, the Centre for the Study of Media and 
Culture in Small Nations, University of South Wales

‘ “All drama which owes its form or substance to theatre plays is OUT” 
(Troy Kennedy Martin): conflicting ideas about “theatricality” in UK 
television drama’



Panel 1. Early television and intermediality

Charles Barr, Professorial Research Fellow, St Mary’s University

‘Stages of theatricality: some connections between early cinema, early 
sound cinema, and early television’



John Wyver, Senior Research Fellow, University of Westminster; Producer, 
Illuminations

‘ “A play a day”: the riches and intermedial relationships of theatre 
plays and other drama on pre-war television’



Lez Cooke, Senior Research Officer, Royal Holloway, University of London

‘Anastasia (BBC, 1953): a phoenix rises from the ashes’



Panel 2. Early drama on the small screen

Amanda Wrigley, Research Fellow, University of Westminster

‘Mystery plays on television’



Susanne Greenhalgh, Principal Lecturer, University of Roehampton

‘Women dipped in blood: televising sex and violence in Middleton’s 
tragedies’



Varsha Panjwani, Lecturer, Boston University (London); Research 
Associate, University of York

‘Co-authorship in theatre and television: The Changeling as a case-study’



Special event + wine reception

Greg Doran, Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company

‘Theatricality in Shakespeare productions on television and the cinema 
screen’

Interviewed by John Wyver, University of Westminster



Friday 20 February 2015

Day 2 opens at 8.30am with coffee. The first panel begins at 9am. The 
conference closes at 5.30pm.



Panel 3. Politics

Sos Eltis, Fellow and Tutor in English, Brasenose College and the 
University of Oxford

‘How did television adaptations of plays by Wilde and Shaw reflect or 
stand aside from the political, critical and technical developments of 
the 1980s?’



David Warren, Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and De 
Montfort University

‘How did theatre plays on British television between 1946 and the early 
1980s reflect the political and social environment of the British 
theatre of that period?’



Sally Shaw, PhD candidate, University of Portsmouth

‘From radical black theatre production to television adaptation: Black 
Feet in the Snow (1974, BBC)’



Launch of the Screen Plays database



Panel 4. British plays from stage to screen

Billy Smart, Research Officer, Royal Holloway, University of London

‘Three television reconfigurations of John Osborne’



James Charlton, Director of Programmes, Media Arts, Middlesex University

‘If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing on public television – Joe 
Orton’s plays on television’



Kate Iles, Lecturer in Screenwriting and Production, University of 
Roehampton

‘My Boy Jack, adapted from stage to screen’



Lunch



Alexandra Palace as the birthplace of television: a walking tour



Panel 5. Broader contexts I

Jonathan Bignell, Professor of Television and Film, University of Reading

‘Rights, performance and adaptation’



Leah Panos, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Reading

‘Televising theatre plays on Full House (1972-73)’



Panel 6. Broader contexts II

Laurence Raw, Department of English, Baskent University, Ankara

‘Shakespeare as national icon: King Lear on British and Turkish television’



Tom Cantrell, Acting Head of Theatre, University of York, & Christopher 
Hogg, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, Sheffield Hallam 
University

‘Siân Phillips: theatre on television – an actor’s perspective’



End of conference and end of project reflections





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