British Theatre Conference

The British Theatre Consortium is pleased to announce a new conference entirely dedicated to the art of creating punning titles for theatre conferences. The first session ‘Welcome to the House of Pun’ will centre on a keynote address by David Edgar and consist largely of telling the history of British theatre through song titles. The [...]

University of Birmingham, Selly Oak Campus
Saturday March 13th- Sunday March 14th 2010
20 years of the Birmingham Playwriting MA/MPhil(B)
20 new plays by graduate playwrights
20 papers on the pedagogy of playwriting
2009-10 marks the twentieth anniversary of the foundation of what was then the MA in Playwriting in Birmingham, the first course of its kind in Britain. [...]

Saturday
11.00-13.00 Intro keynote and panel: A national narrative?

Michael Boyd on Shakespeare’s Different Histories; Playwright Howard Brenton, director and actor Barrie Rutter.

13.00-14.15: Lunch
14.15-15.45: Access schmaccess?

Barbara Matthews (Arts Council of England), commentator Mark Lawson and Ed Vaizey MP (Conservative Arts spokesman)

 15.45-16.15: Tea
 16.15-17.45: Mistaken identity?

Playwrights Alia Bano,  Kwame Kwei-Armah and Ashmeed Sohoye, director Natalie Wilson and academic and writer [...]

Many theatrical events recently linked directly to the issues of our conference. This article links to discussions of three of the most noteworthy, covering between them many of the most pressing aspects of the concept of ‘All Together Now’.

The acclaimed verbatim theatre show, The Caravan, by Look Left, Look Right will be running at the Warwick Arts Centre during the conference, All Together Now: British Theatre after Multiculturalism.
In Summer 2007 severe flooding across the UK brought misery to thousands of people, destroying homes and livelihoods. As a result of the ensuing chaos, over [...]

The British Theatre Conference is part of the British Theatre Consortium, a forum in which theatre makers, administrators, students and academics can come together to share views on all issues concerning contemporary theatre and performance in Britain, from playwriting to live art, regional theatre to international touring, site-specific theatre to Shakespearean revivals, politics and art, [...]