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...years went by, the support for theater grew and grew. We kept doing spectacular productions,” Aaron says...
Also in that year, a highly anticipated production of Hamlet marked the 100th production by the Harvard Dramatic Club (HDC), the most prominent of the 14 theater organizations on campus. Aaron directed the play, which was performed in Sanders Theatre and enjoyed a reported budget of over $4,000. According to Aaron, the production stood out as a highlight of Harvard’s theatrical heyday...
...Sanders Theatre had been cited 50 years before as the finest Shakespearean theater in the country. We took out the seats in the center and built a stage there,” Aaron recalls. “It was remarkably well acted. We were trying to simulate what it was like to see the play in those days when it was first done. We brought the lights up at the beginning to simulate daylight and they never changed during the whole production...
Given the celebratory nature of the 100th production, producers decided to make the final performance truly memorable. “In the final performance I thought to give it a real gull,” Aaron says, “we did it without an intermission. It was fascinating to see the audience take their own intermission. You could see them dozing off and thinking about other things. Then they came back to it all as Hamlet re-took the stage...
...They encouraged workshops to be done anywhere,” Aaron says. “A workshop was not a full-fledged production of something, it was an experiment. We used to joke in those days that it was an experiment in terror...