Screen Plays

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.

• Introduction – Amanda Wrigley and John Wyver 1 Stages and the small screen: theatre plays as television drama since 1930 – John Wyver2 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. Priestley’s When We Are Married – Victoria Lowe4 ‘Our other Shakespeare’: Middleton’s tragedies on television, 1965–2009 – Susanne Greenhalgh5 A revival, a reworking and an original: the Harold Pinter season on Theatre 625 (BBC2, 1967) – Amanda Wrigley and Billy Smart6 Regional drama from stage to screen: television adaptations by Peter Cheeseman’s Victoria Theatre company – Lez Cooke7 Granada Television’s experiment with The Stables Theatre Company, 1969–70 – John Wyver8 From radical Black theatre production to television adaptation: Black Feet in the Show (BBC, 1974) – Sally Shaw9 Cedric Messina: producing theatrical classics with a decorative aesthetic – Billy Smart10 Abigail’s Party: ‘It’s not a question of ignorance, Laurence, it’s a question of taste’ – Ruth Adams 11 Screen and stage space in Beckett’s theatre plays on television – Jonathan Bignell12 Television’s natural disposition? An analysis of Naturalism and performance in relation to BBC productions of Ibsen’s plays – Stephen Lacey13 Remediating the real: verbatim plays on television in the new millennium – Cyrielle Garson14 The impact of television on scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays – Neil TaylorIndex

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