Category: Don Taylor

Dramatic Spaces: The Imaginative World of the TV Studio (Dead of Night: The Exorcism, BBC 1972)

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Post date May 20, 2016
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Don’t have nightmares. We decided to open our season – ‘Dramatic Spaces: The Imaginative World of the TV Studio’ – with The Exorcism (BBC2, 5 November 1972) for two reasons.

1970s BBC Billy Smart Directors Don Taylor Edwardian Drama Harley Granville Barker Play of the Month Waste

Two Edwardian dramas 2: ‘Play of the Month: Waste’ (BBC1, 4 December 1977)

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Post date January 17, 2016
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Don Taylor‘s production of Harley Granville Barker’s 1907[1] play Waste approaches space and performance through different directorial techniques to Rudolph Cartier, further demonstrating the variety of visual methods which ‘Edwardian’ dramas could be realized in the television studio.