![]() ![]() The Lost Colony marked a shift in his work from more traditional forms of drama to focus on the creation of large-scale outdoor musical spectacles which he termed " Symphonic Dramas." As of 2012, this is the United States's second-longest-running historical outdoor drama, behind The Ramona Pageant produced in Southern California.īefore Jamestown and Plymouth were founded, a group of about 120 men, women and children established one of the first English settlements in the New World on Roanoke Island in 1587. ![]() The play was written during the Great Depression by Paul Green, who had earlier won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. ![]() It received a special Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre award in 2013. ![]() More than four million people have seen it since 1937. The play has been performed in an outdoor amphitheater located on the site of the original Roanoke Colony in the Outer Banks. It is based on accounts of Sir Walter Raleigh's attempts in the 16th century to establish a permanent settlement on Roanoke Island, then part of the Colony of Virginia. The Lost Colony is an historical outdoor drama, written by American Paul Green and produced since 1937 in Manteo, North Carolina. ![]()
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