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[Identification of item], in the Russell Charles Link Scrapbook #40467, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received as a gift from John Sneden (RT 20160403.1).

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• Carolina Playmakers.
• Drama--Study and teaching--North Carolina.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Link, Russell Charles.
• PlayMakers Repertory Company.
• Theater, Open-air--North Carolina.
• Theater--North Carolina.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History--20th century.

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Dramatic Art Photographs and Related Materials (Collection P0035)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Photographic Laboratory Collection (Collection P0031)

Russell Charles Link was a graduate student in the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of North Carolina in the late 1950s. He acted in and directed several productions on campus during his time at the University.

Includes one scrapbook documenting Carolina Playmakers productions and events sponsored by Graham Memorial Student Union from 1955 to 1959, compiled by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student Russell Charles Link. The scrapbook includes photographs, playbills, programs, newspaper clippings, and related ephemera. Productions documented in the scrapbook, some of which are written by students, include: Ondine, Even the Gods, Blood Wedding, Seventeen, A Midsummer Night's Dream, To a Wild Rose, To Play the Bear, General Alarm, The Impresario, Anastasia, Desire Under the Elms, Room for Rent, Androcles and the Lion, Brigadoon, Stranger in the Land, A Midsummer Tonic, April in the Moon, Bid Time Return, Peer Gynt, Caligula, The Lark, The Teahouse of the August Moon, What Every Woman Knows, Judith, The Cocktail Party, A View From the Bridge, Carnival of Humanity, Antigone, A Comedy of Errors, Oklahoma!, Look Homeward, Angel, The Would-Be Gentleman, Fear and Trembling, With Apologies, Euripides, We Might Become Examples, An Age of Reason, Mrs. McThing, Two Legends, and The Magic Island.