{"id":368,"date":"2011-06-21T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandfam.net\/dev\/wordpressmu\/college\/?p=368"},"modified":"2011-06-21T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:00:29","slug":"playmakers-awarded-dual-nea-grants-for-shakespeare-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"PlayMakers awarded dual NEA grants for Shakespeare outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"

PlayMakers Repertory Company<\/a> will receive two national arts grants for its staging of a Shakespearean epic during the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

For the fourth year in a row, the National Endowment for the Arts<\/a> (NEA) has recognized the professional theater company, which is based in the College of Arts and Sciences<\/a> at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The NEA will award PlayMakers an \u201cAccess to Artistic Excellence\u201d grant of $100,000 to support the company\u2019s two-part production \u201cThe Making of a King,\u201d presenting \u201cHenry IV\u201d (parts one and two) and \u201cHenry V\u201d by William Shakespeare in repertory.<\/p>\n

The award is the largest by the NEA to any professional theater for a production planned in the upcoming season. Only New York\u2019s Lincoln Center Theater and The Goodman Theatre in Chicago also garnered grants of this size.<\/p>\n

Also for \u201cThe Making of a King,\u201d PlayMakers will receive a $25,000 grant from the NEA and Arts Midwest<\/a> for the NEA\u2019s \u201cShakespeare for a New Generation\u201d program, which supports Shakespeare productions and related educational activities by professional theater companies.<\/p>\n

PlayMakers also received NEA grants in its last three seasons, for \u201cBig River\u201d (2010-2011), \u201cAs You Like It\u201d (2009-2010) and \u201cPericles\u201d (2008-2009).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply honored by these grants,\u201d said PlayMakers\u2019 producing artistic director Joseph Haj. \u201cTo receive such support from the NEA is an enormous acknowledgement of the art we are striving to create and our outreach efforts to link our plays meaningfully to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Making of a King: Henry IV & Henry V\u201d will be performed in repertory from Jan. 28 to March 4 at the Paul Green Theatre in UNC\u2019s Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road.<\/p>\n

Through the \u201cAccess to Artistic Excellence\u201d grant, PlayMakers will undertake an outreach program called \u201cBreaking History: Power, Politics, and the Legacy of War,\u201d exploring themes of war, loyalty and leadership through the lens of \u201cHenry IV\u201d and \u201cHenry V,\u201d two of the Bard\u2019s war-themed plays.<\/p>\n

The initiative will <\/strong>connect the plays to North Carolina\u2019s military population at Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base in Fayetteville and regional peace and justice organizations, putting these groups in dialogue with one another. PlayMakers will perform scenes from the plays in Fayetteville and host roundtable discussions on the experiences of military personnel.<\/p>\n

PlayMakers also will hold a weekend seminar with UNC\u2019s Program in the Humanities and Human Values, in which military veterans and university scholars will participate. As the culmination of the initiative, PlayMakers will host a community forum with military personnel, peace and social justice activists and veterans joining with theater patrons in a conversation about America\u2019s military culture.<\/p>\n

The \u201cAccess to Artistic Excellence\u201d grant also will underwrite a community forum with best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Chris Hedges. Participants will discuss the themes of the plays through the prism of his book \u201cWar Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning\u201d (2002), which explores America\u2019s cultural addiction to war.<\/p>\n

Through the \u201cShakespeare for a New Generation\u201d program, PlayMakers will provide free tickets to educational matinees for students and their teachers from schools in the Triangle and surrounding counties. The company also will create and distribute study guides and learning materials, send teaching artists into schools. Schools benefiting will particularly include those identified as underserved in arts education because of lack of access, geographically or economically.<\/p>\n

In addition, PlayMakers, the Program in the Humanities and Human Values and the N.C. Civic Education Consortium will host a teacher in-service event.<\/p>\n

For information on PlayMakers\u2019 2011-2012 season and upcoming special events, visit www.playmakersrep.org<\/a> or call (919) 962-PLAY (7529). Subscription packages are available.<\/p>\n

PlayMakers is the Carolinas\u2019 premier resident professional theater company. New York\u2019s Drama League has named PlayMakers one of the \u201cbest regional theatres in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Web sites: <\/strong>http:\/\/www.nea.gov<\/a>
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