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Established 10 years ago when President Derek C. Bok lured Professor of English Robert S. Brustein and members of the Yale Repertory Theater to Harvard, the ART is praised as one of the most innovative dramatic companies in the country. But its relationship to the undergraduate community has traditionally been marred by resentment on both sides...
Under the agreement negotiated between Bok and ART artistic director Brustein, the HRDC gets to use the large Mainstage Theater for two productions each semester and retains control over the smaller Experimental ("Ex") Theater. The ART is also charged with aiding student productions on the Mainstage on a request basis...
Among the four aims of the ART's role at Harvard, Brustein says, are "to be a living library, to bring life to the plays that sit on the shelves of Widener" and to supervise undergraduates and provide instruction regarding the use of the Loeb. One of the main purposes for the ART troupe, he adds, is for it to be a "laboratory" of experimental theater...
...HRDC was understandably unwilling to give uptime, and ART is unable to give up slots," saidART Artistic Director Robert Brustein, who managesthe Loeb. "ART has to earn a certain income. Evena few missed performances would put it in thedeficits. And we're not allowed to do that...
...Brustein said the negotiations for an extraslot for Citystep amounted to a conflict between"needs that can't be reconciled...