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Dennis Potter: an Unconventional Dramatist
Dennis Potter: An Unconventional Dramatist Dennis Potter (1935–1994), graduate of New College, was one of the most innovative and influential television dramatists of the twentieth century, known for works such as single plays Son of Man (1969), Brimstone and Treacle (1976) and Blue Remembered Hills (1979), and serials Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986) and Blackeyes (1989). Often controversial, he pioneered non-naturalistic techniques of drama presentation and explored themes which were to recur throughout his work. I. Early Life and Background He was born Dennis Christopher George Potter in Berry Hill in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire on 17 May 1935, the son of a coal miner. He would later describe the area as quite isolated from everywhere else (‘even Wales’).1 As a child he was an unusually bright pupil at the village primary school (which actually features as a location in ‘Pennies From Heaven’) as well as a strict attender of the local chapel (‘Up the hill . usually on a Sunday, sometimes three times to Salem Chapel . .’).2 Even at a young age he was writing: I knew that the words were chariots in some way. I didn’t know where it was going … but it was so inevitable … I cannot think of the time really when I wasn’t [a writer].3 The language of the Bible, the images it created, resonated with him; he described how the local area ‘became’ places from the Bible: Cannop Ponds by the pit where Dad worked, I knew that was where Jesus walked on the water … the Valley of the Shadow of Death was that lane where the overhanging trees were.4 I always fall back into biblical language, but that’s … part of my heritage, which I in a sense am grateful for.5 He was also a ‘physically cowardly’6 and ‘cripplingly shy’7 child who felt different from the other children at school, a feeling heightened by his being academically more advanced. -
Dennis Potter: an Unconventional Dramatist
Dennis Potter: An Unconventional Dramatist Dennis Potter (1935–1994), graduate of New College, was one of the most innovative and influential television dramatists of the twentieth century, known for works such as single plays Son of Man (1969), Brimstone and Treacle (1976) and Blue Remembered Hills (1979), and serials Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986) and Blackeyes (1989). Often controversial, he pioneered non-naturalistic techniques of drama presentation and explored themes which were to recur throughout his work. I. Early Life and Background He was born Dennis Christopher George Potter in Berry Hill in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire on 17 May 1935, the son of a coal miner. He would later describe the area as quite isolated from everywhere else (‘even Wales’).1 As a child he was an unusually bright pupil at the village primary school (which actually features as a location in ‘Pennies From Heaven’) as well as a strict attender of the local chapel (‘Up the hill . usually on a Sunday, sometimes three times to Salem Chapel . .’).2 Even at a young age he was writing: I knew that the words were chariots in some way. I didn’t know where it was going … but it was so inevitable … I cannot think of the time really when I wasn’t [a writer].3 The language of the Bible, the images it created, resonated with him; he described how the local area ‘became’ places from the Bible: Cannop Ponds by the pit where Dad worked, I knew that was where Jesus walked on the water … the Valley of the Shadow of Death was that lane where the overhanging trees were.4 I always fall back into biblical language, but that’s … part of my heritage, which I in a sense am grateful for.5 He was also a ‘physically cowardly’6 and ‘cripplingly shy’7 child who felt different from the other children at school, a feeling heightened by his being academically more advanced. -
The Spaces of the Wednesday Play (BBC TV 1964–1970): Production, Technology and Style
The spaces of the Wednesday Play (BBC TV 1964–1970): production, technology and style Article Accepted Version Bignell, J. (2014) The spaces of the Wednesday Play (BBC TV 1964–1970): production, technology and style. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 34 (3). pp. 369-389. ISSN 0143-9685 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2014.937182 (Special issue "Production, site and style") Available at http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/37674/ It is advisable to refer to the publisher’s version if you intend to cite from the work. See Guidance on citing . Published version at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/.VBsWcFYsoYU To link to this article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2014.937182 Publisher: Taylor & Francis All outputs in CentAUR are protected by Intellectual Property Rights law, including copyright law. Copyright and IPR is retained by the creators or other copyright holders. Terms and conditions for use of this material are defined in the End User Agreement . www.reading.ac.uk/centaur CentAUR Central Archive at the University of Reading Reading’s research outputs online Bignell, J., ‘The Spaces of The Wednesday Play (BBC TV 1964–1970): Production, Technology and Style’, Historical Journal of Radio, Film and Television Studies, 34:3 (2014), 369-389. The Spaces of The Wednesday Play (BBC TV 1964-70): Production, Technology and Style Jonathan Bignell Keywords Television; drama; film; location; studio; 1960s; BBC; Wednesday Play. Writing in the trade magazine Film and Television Technician in 1967, the story editor of The Wednesday Play, Roger Smith, looked forward to a moment of decisive change.1 British television production companies would need to re-equip themselves, ready for the coming of colour broadcasting. -
Media Heritage and Memory in the Museum: Managing Dennis Potter's Legacy in the Forest of Dean Hannah Arlia Grist
Media Heritage and Memory in the Museum: Managing Dennis Potter’s Legacy in the Forest of Dean Hannah Arlia Grist A thesis submitted to The University of Gloucestershire in accordance with the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Media, Art and Technology January 2015 Abstract This research explores the ways in which Dennis Potter (1935-1994) is made inheritable to audiences through a rural Heritage Lottery Funded project. With the sale of the written Potter Archive to the Dean Heritage Centre, Gloucestershire, in 2010, this study explores in great detail the processes enacted to interpret the Potter Archive as cultural (television) heritage. Through a creative and innovative research design which utilises autoethnography, inventive qualitative methods and a level of quantitative analysis, this study examines the ways in which Potter is made intelligible to past television audiences, project members and collaborators, local people, and the casual tourist within the heritage environment. A unique and irreproducible study, this interdisciplinary research sits as a contribution to an emerging field that is located at the interface between Memory studies and Museum Studies and explores the way various forms of mediation are connected to these fields. Inherently at stake in this research is the valorisation of television as heritage, as Potter remains well within living memory. Through proximate and intimate connections to this multifaceted heritage project this work represents one of the first interventions to explore turning television into heritage at a local level drawing together the macro level of cultural policy with the micro level of enacting that policy. -
A History and Analysis of Forest of Dean Literature
Reading the Forest A history and analysis of Forest of Dean literature Jason Griffiths A thesis submitted to the University of Gloucestershire in accordance with the requirements of the degree of PhD Religious, Philosophical and Historical Studies in the School of Education and Humanities November 2019 Word Count 87,722 Abstract This research identifies for the first time a distinctive body of literary work that is Forest of Dean literature. It establishes a history of this literature from its first appearances at the beginning of the nineteenth century up until the end of the twentieth century. It begins to identify some of the persistent ideas and stories about the Forest in literature, and demonstrates how these relate to changing cultural and economic circumstances. By tracing the origins of the most persistent ideas and stories about the Forest to their first appearances in early-modern British topographies, travel writing, and early county histories, it demonstrates how these influenced subsequent writing set in or about the Forest of Dean. The research reveals how, emerging in the first half of the nineteenth century, four local writers produced novels and poems that began to describe the Forest as a distinctive place with a distinctive history, landscape and culture, and seeks to explain why this was: these are the first examples of Forest of Dean literature. A significant part of the thesis focuses on the development of Forest of Dean literature in the twentieth century and how this too responded to changing circumstances both locally and further afield. The final chapters of the thesis analyse key aspects of Forest of Dean literature: the myth of the Forest as isolated, the Forest as centre rather than periphery, and proposes the concept of a Forest gaze. -
The Complete Dennis Potter: Messages for Posterity Part 3: Faith & Redemption (June) Part 4: Sex & Death (July)
The Complete Dennis Potter: Messages for Posterity Part 3: Faith & Redemption (June) Part 4: Sex & Death (July) With onstage appearances from: actors Brian Blessed, Alison Steadman, Janet Suzman, Kika Markham, directors Gareth Davies, Renny Rye, Jon Amiel and Robert Knights, producers Kenith Trodd, Jonathan Powell and Betty Willingale, Reverend Giles Fraser, critic Philip Purser, writer Ian Greaves Friday 15 May 2015, London Following two months of screenings in 2014, the BFI’s definitive complete canon of Dennis Potter commemorating 20 years since the writer’s death, concludes at BFI Southbank with screenings on the theme of ‘Faith & Redemption’ in June and ‘Sex & Death’ in July, featuring screenings of some of his most famous works including Blackeyes (BBC, 1989), Son of Man (BBC, 1969) and his masterpiece The Singing Detective (BBC, 1986), which will be screened in its entirety. Dennis Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) is generally acknowledged as Britain’s greatest and most innovative TV writer. He produced a body of work specifically for television that redefined TV drama, daring to challenge both commissioners’ and viewers’ perceptions of the format. Ken Trodd, who was Potter’s producer for most of his career and who is co-curator of the Messages for Posterity season - says ‘what Dennis left is an enormous, daunting, inviting and revealing feast of brilliance. I’m still astonished by the freshness and originality of it all. Tune in, watch, and feel yourself grow!’ These screenings build a picture of a complex man of great conviction, a man who passionately believed in the power of TV drama. -
MUUKALAINEN MIELESSÄSI Dennis Potter Ja Vierailijat
Riikka Komulainen MUUKALAINEN MIELESSÄSI Dennis Potter ja vierailijat Pro gradu -tutkielma Riikka Komulainen Tampereen yliopisto Taideaineiden laitos Teatterin ja draaman tutkimus Toukokuu 2009 i Tampereen yliopisto, taideaineiden laitos Komulainen, Riikka: Muukalainen mielessäsi – Dennis Potter ja vierailijat Pro gradu -tutkielma, 96 sivua Teatterin ja draaman tutkimus Toukokuu 2009 ________________________________________________________________________________ Tämä tutkielma keskittyy brittiläiseen televisiodramaatikko Dennis Potteriin. Tutkimukseni lähtö- kohdaksi, taustaksi ja myös itsenäiseksi ja yhtäläisen tärkeäksi osaksi halusin liittää kattavan yleis- silmäyksen Potterin elämäntyöhön televisiossa, jonka Potter valitsi luovuutensa pääasialliseksi il- maisuvälineeksi. Esittelen Potterin tuotantoa pääpiirteissään keskittyen Potterin omaleimaiseen ja uuttaluovaan non-naturalistiseen tyyliin ja tekniikkaan ja tärkeimpiin teemoihin, joihin kuuluivat seksin ja seksuaalisuuden, uskonnon ja henkisen etsinnän, sosiaalisen luokan ja nostalgian aihepii- rit. Lähimmin tarkastelen Potterin pääteosta The Singing Detective ja luon silmäyksen myös kirjaili- jan saamaan kritiikkiin ja paljon keskustelua aikaansaaneeseen omaelämäkerrallisuuden problema- tiikkaan. Tutkielmassani avaan Potterin tuotannossa usein ja syvällä esiintyvää vierailumotiivin käsitettä ja perehdyn sen ilmenemismuotoihin Potterin teoksissa. Vierailu- eli visitaatiomotiivi tarkoittaa Potte- rilla tiettyä perusjuonikuviota, jossa muukalainen tunkeutuu yhteisöön rangaistakseen,