Production Workshop Posters and Programs (OF.1Q.2019.011)

Biographical/Historical Note

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.”