Production Workshop was formed in 1959-60 as an independent organization, controlled by students. Beginning with one-act plays, it provided opportunities for student direction of plays and experience for student actors who found Sock and Buskin too time-consuming. The 1966 Liber Brunensis described the work of Production Workshop as a supplement to Sock and Buskin:
“Production Workshop ... presents the more progressive and avant-garde side of drama.... The group presents four shows a year: two sets of from one to three plays chosen for their divergence from standard S & B material; one religiously significant play in cooperation with the UCA ‘University Christian Association’; and from one to three original one-act plays written by members of the University community and chosen through an annual play-writing contest.”
The modern Production Workshop is “a non-profit student theatre at brown university. Production Workshop does not have a mission statement, because it is constantly being created and re-created by each group of students who works in the space during their time at Brown University.”
Contains programs, promotional fliers, scripts, and newspaper clippings for shows put on by Production Workshop.
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Production Workshop Posters and Programs, OF.1Q.2019.011
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