2023 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 14-17
The Playtext Digital Archive was released on February 28, 2021. 539 plays written or adapted in Japanese can be viewed or downloaded free of charge. It is operated by the Japan Playwrights Association. One may search for plays by playwright name, title, number of performers, performance time, etc. This paper will discuss the project management, challenges and design up to the release, the actual work of the team in response to those challenges, the response of users after the release, and challenges for future improvement and sustainability from the perspective of the author involved as a person in charge of the operation up to the present.
