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Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST) was an independent non-profit theatre company located at 2424 North Davidson Street in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was founded in 1992 by Charlotte acting instructor Ed Gilweit as an actor's teaching school. In 2000 Gilweit's company partnered with a video and stage production company run by Michael Simmons called Victory Pictures, Inc., and then with the fledgling theatre group Another Roadside Performance Company run by Robert Lee Simmons, Michael Simmons's son. Through this series of mergers, Gilweit and the Simmonses became the founders of the Carolina Actors Studio Theatre. After Gilweit's death in 2002, Michael Simmons became the Managing Artistic Director. CAST was noted for large-scale installations and elaborate sets with the goal of complete immersion of the audience in the reality of each play. CAST always sought to obliterate the emotional distance between the actor and spectator, a technique they called "experiential theatre". When attending a CAST performance, the experience of the spectator began from the moment they entered—or even approached—the theater.〔(Charlotte Magazine, Theater experience: Carolina Actors Studio Theatre ), May 2011〕〔(Charlotte Magazine: Revue sits down with director of CAST's A Behanding in Spokane ), February 25, 2011〕 ==History== In 2006, with the help of a board of directors recruited from Charlotte’s arts community, CAST received a 501(c)(3) designation.〔Blamy, page 210〕 Since 2008, CAST has also received financial support from the Arts & Science Council. In the summer of 2010 CAST received a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Arts & Science Council.〔 This allowed the company to move out of the cramped quarters they had occupied for eight years on Clement Avenue into a space at 2424 North Davidson in the NoDa neighborhood of Charlotte where it had all begun.〔(The Charlotte Observer: CAST into a new dimension, by Lawrence Toppman, Aug. 27, 2011 )〕 The new location at NoDa contained three theater spaces including a Thrust stage, and a Theatre in the round. For the first time in CAST history there was a spacious bar and lobby area, dressing rooms, storage rooms, a conference room, and a fully equipped scenery-building shop. The new theatre was officially launched in August of 2011 with a production of August: Osage County, the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Tracy Letts. It was the regional premier of that play and was a great critical success.〔(Charlotte Observer: Oklahoma brood riveting in 'Osage County', Theatre Review by Lawrence Toppman, August 26, 2011 )〕 On June 6, 2014 the board of directors of CAST announced that after 64 productions and eight years of operation as a non-profit theatre, the theatre would close. Reasons cited were financial pressures and dwindling attendance.〔(Janes, Théoden (June 7, 2014) “Innovative Carolina Actors Studio Theatre will shut down this month” ), Charlotte Observer〕 On June 21, 2014, despite winning the Charlotte Theatre of the Year award for three years running, and after a 24 year history, CAST shut its doors for the last time with a final performance of Rajiv Joseph's ''Gruesome Playground Injuries''.〔(Carolina Actors Studio Theatre Will Close This Month, WFAE, Charlottes NPR News Source )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carolina Actors Studio Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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