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PlayMakers Repertory Company is the professional theater company in residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.playmakersrep.org/aboutus )〕 PlayMakers Repertory Company is the successor of the Carolina Playmakers and is named after the Historic Playmakers Theatre. PlayMakers was founded in 1976 and is affiliated with the Dramatic and performing arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The company consists of residents, guest artists, professional staff and graduate students in the Department for Dramatic Arts at UNC and produces seasons of six main stage productions of contemporary and classical works that run from September to April. PlayMakers Repertory Company has a second stage series, PRC², that examines controversial social and political issues. The company has been acknowledged by the Drama League of New York and American Theatre magazine for being one of the top fifty regional theaters in the country. PlayMakers operates under agreements with the Actors' Equity Association, United Scenic Artists, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. == History of the Carolina Playmakers== In 1918, Professor Frederick Koch came to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to teach the University's first courses in playwriting. In that same year, he founded the Carolina Playmakers theater company for the production of these original plays. Koch and the Playmakers mainly produced what they considered to be “folk plays.” Koch defined a folk play as being based on “the legends, superstitions, customs, environmental differences, and the vernacular of the common people.” He saw them as primarily “realistic and human,” and chiefly concerned with “man’s conflict with the forces of nature and his simple pleasure in being alive.” 〔Spearman, Walter. ''The Carolina Playmakers: The First Fifty Years,'' Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1970.〕 Working with folk plays encouraged Koch's students to write about the small communities and rural populations they were likely to be familiar with, and, as in the experience of Paul Green, to address the experiences of "marginalized populations of the South," such as African-Americans and American Indians. The Carolina Playmakers began touring locally in 1920, then statewide the following year. In 1922, the first series of ''Carolina Folk Plays'' was published, which included five plays written and produced by the Playmakers. In 1925, Smith Hall, a building on campus previously used as a library and ballroom, was remodeled and dedicated as Playmakers Theatre for Playmakers performances.〔 A number of successful writers and actors honed their craft in the Carolina Playmakers. Novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote and acted in several plays as a UNC student - including taking the title role in "The Return of Buck Gavin" (also written by Wolfe) in the Playmakers' first bill of plays on March 14 and 15, 1919. Betty Smith, who would later write A Tree Grows in Brooklyn from her home in Chapel Hill, first came to town in 1936 as part of the WPA Federal Theater Project, and wrote many plays for the company.〔 In the late 1940s, Andy Griffith had featured roles in several Playmakers performances, including Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" and "HMS Pinafore." Other notable writers associated with the Carolina Playmakers include Paul Green, Josefina Niggli, Kermit Hunter, John Patric, and Jonathan W. Daniels. 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「PlayMakers Repertory Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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