{"id":1676,"date":"2017-01-15T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T14:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2017-01-15T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T14:31:17","slug":"melodrama-meeting-23rd-of-january-5-7pm-jarman-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2017\/01\/15\/melodrama-meeting-23rd-of-january-5-7pm-jarman-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodrama Meeting 23rd of January, 5-7pm, Jarman 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All are very welcome to join us for the first Melodrama meeting of 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We are going to discuss the BBC&#8217;s recent\u00a02-part adaptation of\u00a0Agatha Christie&#8217;s short story <em>The <\/em><em>Witness for the Prosecution. <\/em>As the production\u00a0is over 2 hours in length, we ask that you watch it beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the episodes on iplayer, available until the 25th of January, here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/b086z959?suggid=b086z959\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/b086z959?suggid=b086z959<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2017\/01\/witness-for-the-pros.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1677\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/files\/2017\/01\/witness-for-the-pros.jpg\" alt=\"witness-for-the-pros\" width=\"189\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Adapted by Sarah Phelps (who was also responsible for 2015&#8217;s Agatha Christie 3 parter\u00a0<em>And Then There Were None<\/em>), the production centres on the\u00a0trial\u00a0of a young man accused of murdering an older, wealthy, widow for her money. It \u00a0opens out the story in very different ways to Billy Wilder&#8217;s 1957 film starring Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich. Phelps updates the story for our modern times with a\u00a0sexy older woman\u00a0(Kim Catrall) catching young\u00a0Leonard Vole&#8217;s (Billy Howle&#8217;s) eye. The adaptation is also firmly placed in its post World War I context with many of the characters still dealing with the aftermath of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Do join us if you can for discussion on the adaptation and plans for the coming term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All are very welcome to join us for the first Melodrama meeting of 2017. We are going to discuss the BBC&#8217;s recent\u00a02-part adaptation of\u00a0Agatha Christie&#8217;s short story The Witness for the Prosecution. As the production\u00a0is over 2 hours in length, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2017\/01\/15\/melodrama-meeting-23rd-of-january-5-7pm-jarman-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50575],"tags":[100371,100373,100380,100377,100375,100379,100072,20536,100374,100154,100372,100378,100376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}