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__NOTOC__ :''This club should not be confused with the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club of New York.'' The Experimental Theatre Club (ETC) is a student dramatic society at the University of Oxford, England. It was founded in 1936 by Nevill Coghill as an alternative company to the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS), and produces several productions a year.〔"Oxford" The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. Ed. Phyllis Hartnoll and Peter Found. Oxford University Press, 1996. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed 16 June 2007 (here )〕 The club has staged the first productions of many new works, including ''Epitaph for George Dillon'', written by John Osborne in 1957 and directed by Don Taylor.〔(Pembroke College Record ), 2003—04, page 80.〕 ETC was home to Oxford's student revue company, the Etceteras -- by the early 1970s a rather poor relation of the Cambridge Footlights. Then, in 1975, two figures who would together become major players in TV and film comedy met after answering an advert to join the Etceteras revue-writing team. They were Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson -- a graduate engineering student who made his memorable Oxford debut in a Leapyear Revue at the Oxford Playhouse on 29 February 1976, directed by Etceteras president, Robert Orchard. Curtis had already taken his own first bow in another show by the same director, "Allswellthatendsrock!". From 1977 to 1981, Paul Twivy and Ian Hislop then took over the Etceteras, producing several shows at the Edinburgh Festival and Oxford Playhouse. ETC funded the Etceteras' first major revue in years, "After Eights" at the Oxford Playhouse in May 1976, featuring Atkinson, Curtis, Robin Seavill and others, with material written by the cast, director Andrew Rissik, John Albery, Orchard, Iain Moss and other contributors. 〔''After Eights'' programme, Oxford Playhouse, May 1976.〕 ''(Note: The Etceteras' brief as part of ETC was to stage regular revues in Oxford, while the show performed at the annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe as the Oxford Revue was produced and funded by the separate Oxford Theatre Group (OTG), which also took several plays to the Fringe. Today's thriving Oxford Revue company combines both roles.)'' == Alumni == People who have contributed to ETC productions include: *John Albery *Rowan Atkinson *Lindsay Anderson〔(Lindsay Anderson ).〕 *Alan Bennett *Richard Curtis *Michael Flanders〔''(Michael Flanders (1922–1975) )'', (The Donald Swann Website ).〕 *Piers Fletcher *Philip Franks *Howard Goodall *Tom Hooper〔"Theatre Week". ''The Stage and Television Today'': p. 12. 21 October 1993.〕 *Ian Hislop *Terry Jones *Ken Loach (President) *John McGrath (playwright) *David Melamed *Dudley Moore〔(Obituary: Dudley Moore, 1935–2002 ), Daily Telegraph'', London. March 28, 2002.〕 *Iain Moss *Robert Orchard *Michael Palin〔(Michael Palin Biography ).〕 *Diana Quick *Tony Richardson *Andrew Rissik *John Schlesinger (President)〔(John Schlesinger ), ''(Everything2.com )''.]〕 *Robin Seavill *Don Taylor (director) *Kenneth Tynan (President) * Paul Twivy *Samuel West (President)〔(Samuel West information ).〕 *Sandy Wilson *David Wood〔(Fun Facts about David Wood ).〕 Visiting directors include Peter Hall〔(Shakespeare Quarterly information ), JSTOR.〕 and Terry Hands. 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「Experimental Theatre Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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