Screen plays is a ground-breaking collection that chronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and the present. The volume opens with a substantial historical outline of how plays originally written for the theatre have been presented by the BBC and ITV, as well as independent producers and cultural organisations. Subsequent chapters utilise a variety of critical methodologies to analyse a wide range of outside broadcasts from theatres, screen adaptations of existing stage productions, along with original television productions of classic and contemporary drama. Making a compelling case for the centrality of the theatre to British television’s past and present, Screen plays opens up new areas of research for all those engaged in theatre, media and adaptation studies.
Screen plays is a ground-breaking volume thatchronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and today. The collection makes a compelling case for the centrality of the theatre to the past and present of British television drama.
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This scholarly interdisciplinary volume offers education and inspiration for visionary theatre managers and television and streaming commissioners alike: it ought to foster anew a fruitful union between theatre and television. Critical Studies in Television -- .
Introduction Amanda Wrigley and John Wyver
1 Stages and the small screen: theatre plays as television drama since 1930
John Wyver
2 A duchess, a shoemaker and a knight: early modern drama, early British
television Lisa Ward
3 This genuine theatre condition: Basil Dean and the 1938 BBC outside
broadcast of J. B. Priestleys When We Are Married Victoria Lowe
4 Our other Shakespeare: Middletons tragedies on television, 19652009
Susanne Greenhalgh
5 A revival, a reworking and an original: the Harold Pinter season on Theatre
625 (BBC2, 1967) Amanda Wrigley and Billy Smart
6 Regional drama from stage to screen: television adaptations by Peter
Cheesemans Victoria Theatre company Lez Cooke
7 Granada Televisions experiment with The Stables Theatre Company, 196970
John Wyver
8 From radical Black theatre production to television adaptation: Black Feet
in the Show (BBC, 1974) Sally Shaw
9 Cedric Messina: producing theatrical classics with a decorative aesthetic
Billy Smart
10 Abigails Party: Its not a question of ignorance, Laurence, its a
question of taste Ruth Adams
11 Screen and stage space in Becketts theatre plays on television Jonathan
Bignell
12 Televisions natural disposition? An analysis of Naturalism and
performance in relation to BBC productions of Ibsens plays Stephen Lacey
13 Remediating the real: verbatim plays on television in the new millennium
Cyrielle Garson
14 The impact of television on scholarly editions of Shakespeares plays
Neil Taylor
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Amanda Wrigley has held research posts on several AHRC-funded projects, including Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television (University of Westminster) and Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies (University of Reading).
John Wyver is Professor of the Arts on Screen at the University of Westminster. He is also Director, Screen Productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company and a writer and producer with the independent media company Illuminations. -- .
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