Arena - Season 2 / Year 1976

Arena - Season 2 / Year 1976

Season 2 / Year 1976

Network
Episodes31
DatesJan 7, 1976 - Dec 15, 1976
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Episodes

Theatre: News Round-up
Year 1976Episode 130 min

Theatre: News Round-up

Deborah Norton returns with reports, interviews and extracts from what is liveliest and best in the British theatrical scene.

Jan 7, 1976
Art and Design: News Round-up
Year 1976Episode 235 min

Art and Design: News Round-up

Arena reports on new exhibitions and activities around the country and brings work by artists and designers into the Arena studio.

Jan 14, 1976
Theatre: News Round-up
Year 1976Episode 335 min

Theatre: News Round-up

Jonathan Miller introduces this week's look at what is most stimulating and enjoyable on the theatrical scene.

Jan 21, 1976
Art and Design: Paul Strand
Year 1976Episode 435 min

Art and Design: Paul Strand

This week, Arena features American photographer Paul Strand , the subject of an important new exhibition at the National Portrait. Gallery opening on 30 January, and a short season of films at the NFT.
Strand is now considered by many as one of the major artists of the 20th century and his work has done much to establish photography as one of the fine arts. The programme also looks at some recent trends in British photography : the move away from photo-journalism towards a more independent and personal approach, and towards a new kind of social commitment focussed on the community.

Jan 28, 1976
Theatre: Just Between Ourselves
Year 1976Episode 535 min

Theatre: Just Between Ourselves

Arena goes to Scarborough for the British premiere of a new Alan Ayckbourn play, Just Between Ourselves.
AYCKBOURN is the only contemporary playwright ever to have had five different plays running simultaneously in the West End. Here is a chance to watch the author himself directing his latest play and to follow this production through from the first read-through to dress-rehearsal.

Feb 4, 1976
Art and Design: Keith Grant
Year 1976Episode 635 min

Art and Design: Keith Grant

An increasing number of visual artists, reacting to the gap which divides them from the mainstream of ordinary life, have abandoned their ivory towers to work more directly with people.
This week Arena looks at aspects of community art and includes a film on the work of painter Keith Grant , ' artist-in-residence ' at the New Charing Cross Hospital.

Feb 11, 1976
Theatre: What is Great Acting?
Year 1976Episode 735 min

Theatre: What is Great Acting?

What is great acting? Claire Bloom and Kenneth Tynan discuss three performances. Amongst them Peggy Ashcroft in an extract from BECKETT'S Happy Days and Judi Dench in SHAW'S Too True to be Good, plus a rare treat, filmed on Broadway - Irene Worth in her triumphant success in TENNESSEE WILLIAMS'S Sweet Bird of Youth.

Feb 18, 1976
Art and Design: Sculpture
Year 1976Episode 835 min

Art and Design: Sculpture

A fortnightly look at the world of the visual arts, fashion, photography and design.
Tonight's Arena is about some of the latest developments in sculpture and features Robert Janz and Dante Leonelli , two artists concerned with incorporating a fourth dimension, the dimension of time, to their work.

Feb 25, 1976
Theatre: Paris
Year 1976Episode 990 min

Theatre: Paris

Mar 3, 1976
Art and Design: Video Artists
Year 1976Episode 1090 min

Art and Design: Video Artists

Mar 10, 1976
Theatre: Goodbye to a Building?
Year 1976Episode 1190 min

Theatre: Goodbye to a Building?

Mar 17, 1976
Art and Design: The New Realism Painting
Year 1976Episode 1290 min

Art and Design: The New Realism Painting

Mar 24, 1976
Theatre: Happy Birthday, Royal Court Theatre
Year 1976Episode 1390 min

Theatre: Happy Birthday, Royal Court Theatre

Mar 31, 1976
Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?
Year 1976Episode 1490 min

Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?

Apr 7, 1976
Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1
Year 1976Episode 1590 min

Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1

Aug 25, 1976
Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2
Year 1976Episode 1690 min

Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2

Sep 1, 1976
Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3
Year 1976Episode 1790 min

Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3

Sep 8, 1976
Theatre: Manchester Royal Exchange
Year 1976Episode 1890 min

Theatre: Manchester Royal Exchange

Sep 15, 1976
Cinema: Robert Altman
Year 1976Episode 1990 min

Cinema: Robert Altman

Sep 22, 1976
Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer
Year 1976Episode 2090 min

Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer

Sep 29, 1976
Cinema: Frank Westmore
Year 1976Episode 2190 min

Cinema: Frank Westmore

Oct 6, 1976
Theatre: Peter Shaffer
Year 1976Episode 2290 min

Theatre: Peter Shaffer

Oct 13, 1976
Cinema: Eric Rohmer
Year 1976Episode 2390 min

Cinema: Eric Rohmer

Oct 20, 1976
Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manham/The Swish of the Curtain
Year 1976Episode 2490 min

Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manham/The Swish of the Curtain

Oct 27, 1976
Cinema: Don Siegel
Year 1976Episode 2590 min

Cinema: Don Siegel

Nov 3, 1976
Theatre: The Cultural Common Market
Year 1976Episode 2690 min

Theatre: The Cultural Common Market

Nov 10, 1976
Cinema: British Cinema
Year 1976Episode 2790 min

Cinema: British Cinema

Nov 17, 1976
Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell
Year 1976Episode 2890 min

Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell

Nov 24, 1976
Cinema: 'The Long Vacation of 36'
Year 1976Episode 2990 min

Cinema: 'The Long Vacation of 36'

Dec 1, 1976
Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle
Year 1976Episode 3090 min

Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle

Dec 8, 1976
Cinema: Christmas Special
Year 1976Episode 3190 min

Cinema: Christmas Special

Dec 15, 1976

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