Theatre and Television: Adaptation, Production, Performance a University of Westminster conference, marking the end of the AHRC-funded research project ŒScreen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television¹, Alexandra Palace, Thursday 19 and Friday 20 February 2015 This conference is the culminating event of the AHRC-funded research project ŒScreen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television¹. 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. Early booking is advised as numbers are strictly limited to 50 seats. To register, please contact Dr Amanda Wrigley on [log in to unmask] 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 Œ ³All drama which owes its form or substance to theatre plays is OUT² (Troy Kennedy Martin): conflicting ideas about ³theatricality² in UK television drama¹ Panel 1. Early television and intermediality Charles Barr, Professorial Research Fellow, St Mary¹s University ŒStages of theatricality: some connections between early cinema, early sound cinema, and early television¹ John Wyver, Senior Research Fellow, University of Westminster; Producer, Illuminations Œ ³A play a day²: the riches and intermedial relationships of theatre plays and other drama on pre-war television¹ Lez Cooke, Senior Research Officer, Royal Holloway, University of London ŒAnastasia (BBC, 1953): a phoenix rises from the ashes¹ Panel 2. Early drama on the small screen Amanda Wrigley, Research Fellow, University of Westminster ŒMystery plays on television¹ Susanne Greenhalgh, Principal Lecturer, University of Roehampton ŒWomen dipped in blood: televising sex and violence in Middleton¹s tragedies¹ Varsha Panjwani, Lecturer, Boston University (London); Research Associate, University of York ŒCo-authorship in theatre and television: The Changeling as a case-study¹ Special event + wine reception Greg Doran, Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company ŒTheatricality in Shakespeare productions on television and the cinema screen¹ 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 ŒHow did television adaptations of plays by Wilde and Shaw reflect or stand aside from the political, critical and technical developments of the 1980s?¹ David Warren, Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and De Montfort University ŒHow 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?¹ Sally Shaw, PhD candidate, University of Portsmouth ŒFrom radical black theatre production to television adaptation: Black Feet in the Snow (1974, BBC)¹ Launch of the Screen Plays database Panel 4. British plays from stage to screen Billy Smart, Research Officer, Royal Holloway, University of London ŒThree television reconfigurations of John Osborne¹ James Charlton, Director of Programmes, Media Arts, Middlesex University ŒIf a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing on public television Joe Orton¹s plays on television¹ Kate Iles, Lecturer in Screenwriting and Production, University of Roehampton ŒMy Boy Jack, adapted from stage to screen¹ 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 ŒRights, performance and adaptation¹ Leah Panos, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Reading ŒTelevising theatre plays on Full House (1972-73)¹ Panel 6. Broader contexts II Laurence Raw, Department of English, Baskent University, Ankara ŒShakespeare as national icon: King Lear on British and Turkish television¹ Tom Cantrell, Acting Head of Theatre, University of York, & Christopher Hogg, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University ŒSiân Phillips: theatre on television an actor¹s perspective¹ End of conference and end of project reflections *With apologies for cross-posting* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Amanda Wrigley, Research Fellow Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television University of Westminster http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com <http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com/> http://amandawrigley.wordpress.com <http://amandawrigley.wordpress.com/> @amanda_wrigley on Twitter ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org