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Pilot Theatre is an Arts Council England funded Theatre Company based in York, England. It was founded in 1981 by students from Bretton Hall College in Wakefield. The company was based in Wakefield and Castleford before moving to York in 2001. The company is now based at York Theatre Royal. It tours work in the UK and internationally. The Artistic Director is Marcus Romer who has written and directed work for the company since 1995, working with teams that include composer Sandy Nuttgens and designer Ali Allen and Lighting Designer James Farncombe and AV design by Arnim Friess and more recently with KMA They produced the International Indian Film Academy Awards opening sequence for stage and TV in 2007 at Sheffield Arena. This was in partnership with their new collaborators Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler from KMA who are also based in York. They are part of the EU Culture 2000 funded programme called Magic-Net along with twelve other countries across Europe. The company has won three Manchester Evening News awards for ''Lord of the Flies'', by William Golding, adapted by Nigel Williams, and ''Beautiful Thing'', by Jonathan Harvey. Other work includes ''Sing yer heart out for the lads'', by Roy Williams, ''Road'' by Jim Cartwright, ''Bloodtide'' by Melvin Burgess, ''The Beauty Queen of Leenane'' by Martin McDonagh, ''Kiss of the Spider Woman'' by Manuel Puig, ''Mirad a Boy from Bosnia'' by Ad de Bont, ''Rumble Fish'' by S.E. Hinton, ''Look Back In Anger'' by John Osborne, ''The Elephant Man'' by Bernard Pomerance, ''Fungus the Bogeyman'' by Raymond Briggs, ''The Twits'' by Roald Dahl and ''Looking for JJ'' and ''Antigone''. They won the Manchester Evening News Award for best production for their tour of ''Lord of the Flies'' in 2001. The production was revived and a tour took place in 2008. Pilot Theatre have embraced new technologies both on and off stage. They built their production of ''Looking for JJ'' on MySpace and have the first UK Theatre hub in Second Life. ==References== 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「Pilot Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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