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Tag Archives: Experimental drama
Mixing Genres in the Studio: Playhouse: The Journal of Bridget Hitler (BBC2, 6/2/81)
In the fifth screening of the ‘Dramatic Spaces’ season, The Journal of Bridget Hitler, Colour Separation Overlay (CSO) is used in an entirely different way than in our previous double bill of ‘studio trickery’, this time within a self-reflexive drama-doc … Continue reading
Studio trickery: Censored Scenes From King Kong (BBC, 1973) & Play For Today: The After Dinner Joke (BBC, 14/02/78)
This double-bill, the fourth screening in our ‘Dramatic Spaces’ season at the BFI, features two remarkable BBC television plays that take advantage of electronic ‘studio-trickery’: Howard Schuman’s never-transmitted Censored Scenes From King Kong (1973) and Caryl Churchill’s 1978 Play For … Continue reading
Posted in BFI Screening Series, Single Plays
Tagged CSO, Experimental drama, Howard Schuman
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BFI Season: Dramatic Spaces: The Imaginative World of the Television Studio
We are delighted to announce our forthcoming season of television plays at BFI Southbank in February 2014, ‘Dramatic Spaces: The Imaginative World of the Television Studio’, curated by Leah Panos and Billy Smart of the Spaces of Television project. Featuring … Continue reading
Posted in BFI Screening Series, News
Tagged BBC, CSO, Don Taylor, Experimental drama, Howard Schuman, Naturalism, Play for Today, Theatre Plays on TV
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Beyond the Fourth Wall: Experiments in TV Drama: Samuel Beckett’s Plays on BBC TV
Samuel Beckett is probably best known as a theatre dramatist, but there is a long history of BBC TV presenting dramas that he wrote for specifically for the medium, and also television adaptations of his theatre work (Bignell 2009). In … Continue reading
Posted in People, Single Plays
Tagged Eh Joe, Experimental drama, Lively Arts, Samuel Beckett
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Beyond the Fourth Wall: Experiments in TV Drama: David Bowie in Baal (BBC, 1982)
Alan Clarke’s television production of Bertolt Brecht’s play Baal (BBC1, 2 March 1982) is being screened as part of the ‘Beyond the Fourth Wall: Experiments in TV Drama’ season at BFI Southbank on Friday 30 November. Booking details can be … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Clarke, Baal, Brecht, CSO, David Bowie, Experimental drama
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BFI Southbank Season – ‘Beyond the Fourth Wall: Experiments in TV Drama’
During November and December BFI Southbank will present Beyond the Fourth Wall, a season of television plays that experimented with new forms and styles to create truly exciting and original TV dramas. Highlights include the BBC adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s … Continue reading