Word: brustein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brustein also discusses the role of theater in the university, or perhaps more to the point, the university in theater. The university, he writes, "remains the brightest hope not just for the preservation but also for the development of high culture in America...It enjoys a special position as the locus of youth and age, experiment and tradition, art and intellect, working process and realized results, apprenticeship and professionalism, the possibilities of the future and the heritage of the past...
When the big Brustein gets after...
...love-hate relationship between undergraduates at Yale and Robert S. Brustein, dean of the graduate Yale School of Drama since 1966 and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, has become something of a tradition, as basic as Yale-Harvard rivalry. But it is a tradition, many Yale undergraduates say, founded on specific grievance--grievances accumulated over Brustein's 12-year term at Yale...
...conflict is two-pronged: First is an endless battle between undergraduates and Brustein's drama school over stage time, access to the shop and props. Second is the widespread feeling among undergraduates that Brustein has little respect for their productions, and even less affection for the undergrads as a whole...
...Brustein views it differently. He claims "amateur theatrics" are "very important in developing an appetite for drama" and as "a preparation for professional theater." Dramat members counter that they don't appreciate serving as the hors d'oeuvres to Brustein's Yale Rep entree...