[With apologies for any cross-posting. Please feel free to circulate.] Theatre Plays on British Television A one-day conference at the University of Westminster, Friday 19 October 2012 We are very pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Theatre Plays on British Television conference, organised by the AHRC-funded project Screen Plays (http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com <http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/> ). The conference will tackle issues and topics within the broad area of theatre plays on British television from 1930 to the present. We warmly welcome participation from scholars and postgraduate students working on the histories of broadcasting, media, drama, theatre and culture. The conference will be held in central London on Friday 19 October 2012. Coffee will be available from 8.45am, the programme will begin at 9.15am and the conference will close at6.15pm. Registration The £25 conference fee includes lunch and refreshments. To register, please download the registration form from http://tinyurl.com/93z4nvh and follow the instructions for (a) submission of the form to Helen Cohen at Westminster and (b) payment online or by cheque (n.b. select ŒMAD Conferences & Events¹ from the menu). Please register before Friday 5 October 2012. General queries: [log in to unmask] Programme The programme will consist of four panels, a plenary discussion, wine reception and screening event, as follows: The classical repertoire Lisa Bolding (Department of English, University of Georgia) ŒThe Duchess of Malfi and early British television¹ Russell Jackson (Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham) ŒStage to TV, Britain to America: the case of Peter Hall¹s A Midsummer Night¹s Dream, 1959¹ Daniel Rosenthal (independent scholar) ŒPublic vs. Private: how the BBC and British Home Entertainment fought to televise National Theatre productions, 1963-67¹ Regional theatre, regional television Lez Cooke (Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London) ŒFrom stage to screen: the television plays of Peter Cheeseman¹s Victoria Theatre Company in Stoke-on-Trent¹ John Wyver (School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster) ŒGranada¹s experiment with the Stables Theatre Company, 1969-1970¹ Ben Lamb (Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan) ŒThe Roses of Eyam: reassessing the theatrical legacy of studio-shot television drama¹ Society and politics, media and genre Ruth Adams (Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King¹s College London) ŒAbigail¹s Party: ³It¹s not a question of ignorance, Laurence, it¹s a question of taste² ¹ Amanda Wrigley (School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster) ŒTheatre, Education, Television: the BBC and the Open University in the 1970s¹ Cyrielle Garson (Département d¹études anglophones, Université d¹Avignon) ŒRemediating the real: an examination of verbatim plays on television in the new millennium¹ Spaces of television, spaces of theatre Billy Smart (Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading) ŒThree different Cherry Orchards, three different worlds: Chekhov at the BBC, 1962-1981¹ Jonathan Bignell (Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading) ŒScreen and stage space in Beckett¹s theatre plays on television¹ Stephen Lacey (Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan) ŒTelevision¹s natural disposition? An analysis of Naturalism and performance in relation to the BBC¹s Performance series¹ Plenary discussion and wine reception Screening with introduction (with clips from productions of plays by Fugard, Gorky and Shakespeare): Lisa Kerrigan (Television Curator, British Film Institute) ŒRecordings and rediscoveries: the WNET collection at the Library of Congress and the BFI National Archive¹ ________________________________________________________________________ John Wyver, Senior Research Fellow and Principal Investigator Amanda Wrigley, Research Associate Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television (http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com <http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/> ) University of Westminster ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org