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Strawberry Theatre Workshop (aka Strawshop) is an award-winning Seattle theatre company founded in 2003 by Greg Carter, associated with a movement in that city to improve wages for professional theatre artists. Its name "is derived from the Strawberry Fields of popular music, and the Beatles, who used their recording studio as a daily laboratory of expression."〔(Mission )〕 ==History== Strawshop performed seven plays at the Richard Hugo House from 2004–2006, before moving to the Lee Center for the Arts at Seattle University, and eventually to the Erickson Theatre Off Broadway on Capitol Hill, where they have performed a summer season since 2008. In January 2015, Strawshop will begin performing in a new arts space developed by Capitol Hill Housing called 12th Avenue Arts.〔(12th Avenue Arts )〕 Strawshop is designing and managing the new venue in a partnership with New Century Theatre Company and Washington Ensemble Theatre. In its inaugural season, Strawshop presented an original play for puppets and actors derived from the writing, drawing, and music of American folk artist Woody Guthrie called ''This Land''. The show was created by Carter at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in Minneapolis in 1993. ''This Land'' is one of two puppet plays produced by Strawshop during its time at Hugo House, the other being a premiere adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s novel, ''The Bridge of San Luis Rey''. Both puppet plays were supported by grants from the Puppeteers of America, and ''Bridge'' gained additional funding from the Jim Henson Foundation. In an effort to be genre-breaking, Strawshop has produced two narrative theatre plays, two plays for puppets, three musicals, one original play, and a West Coast premiere (''Gutenberg! The Musical!''), in addition to work from a more traditional canon of Ibsen, Miller, Fo, Brecht, and Mamet. Between 2008-2010, the company featured a series of plays about real people called ''Biograph'' that has included ''Life of Galileo'', ''The Elephant Man'', and ''Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill'' (a portrayal of Billie Holiday). The series concluded in 2010 with productions of ''The Laramie Project'' and ''Breaking the Code'', though historical/biographical work (such as ''Inherit the Wind'' and ''The Normal Heart'') have continued to be featured. Strawshop has no formal relationship with Cornish College of the Arts, though two of the founding Board Members (Carter and Rhonda J Soikowski) were employed there, and dozens of Cornish faculty, staff, and alumni have appeared on the Strawshop stage or worked in design/production positions. 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「Strawberry Theatre Workshop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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