Word: brustein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to squint hard to find inconsistencies like these, though, and aurally if not physically the music works. More curious and ironic is the presence onstage of Robert Brustein, ART's director and a philosopher of the theater in his own right, as Theseus, that unrepentant skeptic with no faith in drama or poetry. This, after all, is the character who delivers the famous speech lumping lovers, poets and madmen together as creatures of imagination, flighty and deluded...
...requires a powerful imagination indeed to suppress an involuntary wry smile when you hear Brustein's Theseus remark, of actors, "The best in this kind are but shadows." Perhaps--just as Shakespeare's play is "only" a dream. At the Loeb, both shadows and dreams seem, if only while the curtain is up, to take on a radiant and tangible form all their...
Mansfield said yesterday he "could be convinced" that such courses have educational value, "but I wasn't by what Brustein said...
...goes as Brustein hopes, Harvard will demonstrate that commitment to drama as soon as next fall. Brustein said yesterday he will submit names of instructors and detailed descriptions for his proposed courses to the Committee on Dramatics at its meeting on April...
Some Faculty members expressed concern that drama courses for credit may eventually lead to the establishment of a concentration and a department. Although he noted that Brustein would like to see that happen, Bowersock said at the meeting, "There are no plans for the moment. That is not a part of what we're proposing now because we want to see how this works...