New 'Conviction' drama

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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30537
    #1

    New 'Conviction' drama

    Just announced is a season of drama in The Wire and Drama on 3, featuring the theme of strong conviction:

    The Conviction Season: The Wire

    Saturday 8 October – Seven Scenes by Nicola Baldwin
    Saturday 15 October – The Last Executioner by Peter-Jakob Kelting
    Saturday 22 October – Iced by Kate Clanchy
    Saturday 29 October – The Empire by DC Moore
    Saturday 12 November – The Thank You Present by Christopher Reason
    Saturday 19 November – Jesus Hustler by Kwame Kwei Armah

    The Conviction Season: Drama On 3

    Sunday 9 October – Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
    Sunday 16 October – Brand by Henrik Ibsen
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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  • Honoured Guest
    #2
    Originally posted by french frank View Post
    Just announced is a season of drama in The Wire and Drama on 3, featuring the theme of strong conviction:

    The Conviction Season: Drama On 3

    Sunday 9 October – Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
    Sunday 16 October – Brand by Henrik Ibsen
    This evening's second broadcast of Saint Joan was followed by the BBC Concert Orchestra playing a Suite arranged from John Foulds's music for the original London production.

    And Sybil Thorndike was named by the announcer as Shaw's original Saint Joan.

    Which got me thinking that that original production must have been very different, and had a very different impact on the audience, than any production today.

    Did straight plays then really have orchestral overtures and interludes?

    Hearing Saint Joan tonight, in a clear straightforward production, I didn't really have much idea of why Shaw wrote it or what it was intended to do to me.

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    • french frank
      Administrator/Moderator
      • Feb 2007
      • 30537
      #3
      Originally posted by Honoured Guest View Post
      Did straight plays then really have orchestral overtures and interludes?
      I can't think of such recent, as you say 'straight' theatre productions, though incidental music was more common (not sure of the circs in which Mendelssohn composed his Midsummer Night's Dream music).
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163
        #4
        Yes; judging by all the Incidental Music suites that survive (Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Grieg, Vaughan Williams) this must have been a "norm" - still used in the National Theatre and at Stratford, but with smaller ensembles. (How large were the orchestras who played in theatrical productions of Peer Gynt, I wonder - and how big were the "pits"?)
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • DracoM
          Host
          • Mar 2007
          • 12995
          #5
          Presume that the St Joan is the one broadcast last night?
          Had an awful lot of blubbing!!

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