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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PANTAGLEiZE THEATRE…
Founding Directors: Roy and Violet O’Valle
Mission Statement: to bring rarely produced plays of international significance to the metroplex, to nurture orignal playwriting of international flavor and significance, and to publish as well as produce such plays, to provide learning opportunites in theatre arts for the young people of the community, to encourage inclusive and open casting and to provide artistic opportunities to all neighborhoods and populations in the Fort Worth area.
Pantagleize Theatre Company was Founded in 2002 as a 501(C)(3) non-profit corporation in the state of Texas.
To date Pantagleize has performed plays from France, Poland, Holland, Mexico, Norway, South Africa, Ireland, Romania and the United States. Pantagleize enjoy a special relationship with Ireland. Our play about the earliest Irish settlers in Texas, Little Hill of Refuge, premiered during the summer of 2009 in Moneygall, Ireland.
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WHAT’S WITH THAT NAME…
During the first World War, remnants of two armies, German and French, exchanged gunfire from atop two buildings overlooking a square in a small Belgian town. Just as the twelve o’clock whistle sounded, a dapper clerk emerged from the bank. Noticing the bullet-riddled atmosphere, he opened a huge umbrella, and then strolled confidently across the square. Both armies stopped firing and shared rare laughter. The clerk made it safely to the other side.
One of the soldiers on that roof eventually became Belgium’s most celebrated playwright, Michel de Ghelderode. Years later, recalling the idealistic clerk, Ghelderode created his most memorable character, then named him, and the play that bears his name, Pantagleize.
The Pantagleize Theatre Company is dedicated to nurturing understanding among world cultures and vows to produce plays of international character, to include cultures within our community generally excluded or belittled, and to provide opportunities for personal and artistic growth.
We celebrate with joy all that makes us one.
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Pantagleize has received grants from the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the City of Fort Worth , the Amon G. Carter Foundation, and the Charles and Ingrid Inge Foundation.
