August at the BFI

29 June 2009 Rob Buckley BFI events, Events, UK TV 4 Comments

Time for our regular look at what’s on at the South Bank in London in August. Everyone’s probably going to be on holiday, but c’est la vie.

Most of the TV-related material is part of the “From Stage to TV Screen” season, which is probably self-explanatory, but there’s also an afternoon run: Missing Believed Wiped Special: The Lost Cartiers, looking at the work of legendary 1950s/60s director Rudolph Cartier.

  • 2nd/4th: Play of the Month: Look Back In Anger
    John Osborne’s play, shot for the BBC1 on the 20th anniversary of its first Royal Court performance. Stars James Hazeldine
  • 10th/14th: Theatre 625: Chicken Soup With Barley
    The first play of Arnold Wesker’s trilogy concerns the history of a communist working class family
  • 12th: Rat in the Skull + Panel discussion
    Brian Cox and Gary Oldman star in an examination of Irsih sectarian psychology. The panel interview with Max Stafford-Clark and Simon Curtis discuss the influence of Royal Court productions on TV drama.
  • 19th/25th: Performance: Top Girls
    Caryl Churchill’s fantasy dinner party, starring Lesley Sharp among others
  • 20th/29th: Performance: Suddenly, Last Summer
    A production of Tennessee William’s play starring Maggie Smith, Natasha Richardson, Rob Lowe and Richard E Grant
  • 22nd: It is Midnight, Dr Schweitzer
    Part of the Missing Believed Wiped Special: The Lost Cartiers season, this in the earliest surviving complete UK TV drama, and stars André Morrell
  • 22nd: The Wednesday Play: The July Plot + Out of the Unknown: Level Seven
    Part of the Missing Believed Wiped Special: The Lost Cartiers season, The July Plot is based on the ‘Valkyrie’ plot to assassinate Hitler, and was directed by Rudolph Cartier. Level Seven is a ‘chilling instalment about nuclear war’
  • 27th/30th: Performance: Six Characters in Search of An Author
    Starring John Hurt, Brian Cox and Tara Fitzgerald

Members’ priority booking opens: 11.30am July 7
Public booking opens: 11.30am July 14

Prices
£7.60 (members)
£5.25 (member concs)
£9.00 (non-members)
£6.65 (non-members concs)
Under 16s £5.

All shows are £5 on Tuesdays. Conc prices are available to senior citizens, students, unwaged and disability visitors. Proof of eligibility may be required.

As always, visit the BFI web site for more details

PS Cy Young’s standing for the board of governors. Vote for Cy Young everyone!

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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