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Professor of English Robert Brustein created the Institute after trying unsuccessfully to establish a graduate dramatics program here for the past eight years. Brustein, who is founding director of both the Yale Repertory Theater and the ART, says that in 1979 he proposed "we bring a theater here and a conservatory." He adds, "But President Bok did not want to consider a conservatory because Harvard had no undergraduate courses in theater for credit...
Perhaps that is why Ben Evett '86, a charter member of Robert Brustein's Institute for Advanced Theatrical Training, has decided to stage Faith Healer in the Adams House basement. This two hour talkfest consists of four reminiscences about Francis Hardy (Ben Evett), an itinerant Irish faith healer whose ministrations actually succeed from time to time. Hardy, his wife Grace (Rebecca Clark), and his manager Teddy (Linus Gelber) recall his life, culminating in a disastrous return tour to Ireland. Each character gives his version of the events, with Hardy going first and last; like the famous Japanese short story...
...Amherst College alumnus selected the ART as his next stop because of his long-time association with Robert Brustein, whom he calls a "visionary." The ART Director taught Howard at the Yale University Drama School in the 1960's. While opposed in principle to working in a repertory company, the actor says he joined the Cambridge-based troupe because Brustein allows his players a large amount of artistic freedom and control...
Despite their over 20-year-long friendship, the Long Island-native says Brustein has shown little favoritism towards him. "Brustein has bent over backwards to have me treated the same as everyone else in terms of the work," he says. "I think maybe in one way I've provided a certain freshness, a certain new energy. I think I've made a contribution in that...
...Some actors that I know in California say 'Oh you're going back to art,"' Howard says. "Basically, what it is, is going back to longer hours for less money, a lot of hard work and numerous frustrations, which is all somehow in the service of an ideal that Brustein is working on. And that is of value...