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''Fly'' is a 2009 play written by Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first black fliers in the U.S. military during World War II. ==Background== Khan, one of the play's co-writers and director of the Washington, D.C. production, said that the idea to write the play came from a photo he saw of the Tuskegee Airmen.〔Walker, Jeffrey, ("Co-author and director Ricardo Khan talks about ''Fly''," ) September 10, 2012, retrieved September 30, 2012〕 He said he was "stunned" to see "men of color, dressed in their pilot’s uniforms."〔 Khan said he was so fascinated by the photo that he "wanted to know who these men were," and when he learned more, he knew he wanted to write about them, to "tell their story."〔 An early version of the play was commissioned in 2005 by the Lincoln Center Institute, the educational arm of New York's Lincoln Center, where Khan was serving as an artist-in-residence.〔〔Gates, Anita, ("Breathing new life into an oft-told tale," ) ''The New York Times'', October 9, 2009, retrieved September 29, 2012〕 This early one-hour version of the play was produced in 2007 and 2008.〔Filicia, Peter, (Ricardo Kahn relaunches the Tuskegee Airmen," ) NJ.com website, September 24, 2009, retrieved September 29, 2012〕 A later version of the play was staged in June 2009 at the Vineyard Theater in Massachusetts before the final version had its world premiere in New Brunswick, New Jersey, at the Crossroads Theater, in October 2009.〔 Khan is co-founder and former artistic director of the Crossroads Theater, known as "one of the nation's foremost African-American theater companies."〔Wells, Mary, ("All-Star Ensemble Brings Tuskegee Airmen Heroics to Vineyard Playhouse," June 12, 2009 ), retrieved September 30, 2012〕〔("The Tuskegee Airmen 'fly' again," ) ''The Washington Examiner'', September 17, 2012, retrieved September 29, 2012]〕 One of the main advisors for the Crossroads production was Roscoe Brown, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen.〔 According to Khan, Brown was the one who first suggested using World War II film clips in the production.〔 Both writers had dealt with the subject of the Tuskegee Airmen in other works: Khan, in the play "Black Eagles," which had been produced at Ford's Theater in 1989; and Ellis in the 1995 HBO film "The Tuskegee Airmen."〔Pressley, Nelson, ("''Fly'' at Ford's Theater is uplifting story of Tuskegee airmen," ) ''The Washington Post'', September 27, 2012, retrieved September 29, 2012〕 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「Fly (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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