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Beyond the Fourth Wall - Experiments in TV Drama: Samuel Beckett’s Plays on BBC TV

8/8/2018

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 its 2012 season of screenings titled ‘Beyond the Fourth Wall: Experiments in TV Drama’, the British Film Institute screened a selection that comprised Beckett’s original television play Eh Joe (BBC 1966), and an episode of the arts series The Lively Arts (BBC 1977) that includes three of his dramas. These are visually distinctive plays, worthy of the term ‘experimental’, and the story of how they were made and received reveals fascinating relationships between Beckett, the BBC and different groups of viewers.

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Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance (CfP deadline: 13th August)

2/8/2018

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22 - 23 November 2018, University of Reading
As part of Beckett Week 2018, this two-day event invites academics, practitioners and postgraduates to engage in discussions surrounding Samuel Beckett’s involvement in early Modernist periodicals and his creative relationships in theatre. The conference, supported by the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading, will use the Beckett archive at the university to explore the diverse literary and performance networks that continue to spread across disciplines and genres.

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Beyond the Fourth Wall - Experiments in TV Drama: Samuel Beckett’s Plays on BBC TV

Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance (CfP deadline: 13th August)

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