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Theatre Centre is a UK-based theatre company touring new plays for young audiences aged 4 to 18. Founded in 1953 by Brian Way, the company has developed plays by writers including Lisa Evans, Noël Greig, Mike Kenny, Bryony Lavery, Leo Butler, Brendan Murray, Philip Osment, Manjinder Virk, Roy Williams and Benjamin Zephaniah.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Theatre Centre: 60 years young )〕 Theatre Centre is a member of Theatre for Young Audiences UK (TYA-UK), a network for makers and promoters of professional theatre for young audiences.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=TYA-UK Members )〕 Brian Way and Margaret Faulkes founded Theatre Centre in 1953.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Playwrights: Brian Way )〕 When they produced a shortened version of Dorothy L. Sayers’ The Man Born To Be King, the production inspired Sayers to donate £200 to help establish the company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Dorothy L. Sayers Actors' Award )〕 The company's "initial aim was to provide a place where unemployed actors might meet and practise their art", Laurence Harbottle (of Harbottle & Lewis) reported in 2006. "What it became was the launch pad for educational theatre in schools - and what Brian became, in the next half century, was the seminal influence on that movement, worldwide.” Many of Theatre Centre’s early plays were written by Brian Way himself.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Youth, education and community )〕 Way believed plays should be written for a specific age group.,〔 and "argued that the quality of performance deteriorates" when audience numbers increase. Theatre Centre productions were “presented informally on the floor of the school hall, in the round.”〔 Today, Theatre Centre shows tour to schools and venues around the country〔 and the company has a focus on writers creating “exciting work for young audiences.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Write Lines )〕 Theatre Centre is a registered charity〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Charity Commission: Theatre Centre )〕 and is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=National Portfolio Organisations: Theatre Centre )〕 == Awards == Theatre Centre administrates two prizes for writers, the Brian Way Award for Best New Play (formerly The Children’s Award, established by Arts Council England〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Writing prizes in danger as ACE halts involvement )〕) and the Adrienne Benham Award. The Brian Way Award is presented annually to the writer of a play for young people which has been professionally produced, and the Adrienne Benham Award to a writer who wishes to write a play for young people but who hasn’t previously done so.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Playwright Wilson wins Brian Way Award )〕 Winners of the Brian Way Award for Best New Play: * 2012: Evan Placey for Holloway Jones (Synergy Theatre Company) * 2011: Keith Saha for Ghost Boy (20 Stories High) * 2010: Laurence Wilson for Blackberry Trout Face (20 Stories High) * 2009: Douglas Maxwell for The Mothership (Birmingham Repertory Theatre) * 2008: David Greig for Yellow Moon (TAG) * 2008: Fin Kennedy (runner-up) for Locked In (Half Moon Theatre Company) * 2007: Tim Crouch for Shopping for Shoes (National Theatre Education Department) * 2007: Deborah Gearing (runner-up) for Burn (Shell Connections) * 2006: Neil Duffield for The Lost Warrior (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster) * 2005: Abi Bown for Hey There Boy with the Bebop (Polka Theatre) * 2004: Charles Way for Red Red Shoes (Unicorn Theatre) * 2003: Phil Porter for Smashed Eggs (Pentabus Theatre) * 2002: Brendan Murray for Eliza’s House (Royal Exchange) * 2001: Mike Kenny for Stepping Stones (Interplay) Winners of the Adrienne Benham Award: * 2012: Kenneth Emson * 2011: Marcelo Dos Santos * 2010: Paula B. Stanic * 2009: Steven Bloomer 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「Theatre Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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