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Negotiating the calender for stage time at the University theater each April was always a nightmare, Bailey says. Representatives of the Dramat waged a yearly struggle with graduate school administrators in an effort to extend stage slots. "Some years Brustein just handed down a calendar without ever asking us for our approval. One year they assigned us our spring vacation as performance time. Another time it was Thanksgiving weekend. And they always considered our reading and exam periods prime weeks for us to perform...
When the Dramat did manage to engineer a bargaining session beforehand, Brustein would send a representative. As a rule, he never came to the meetings...
...environment of isolation" between undergraduates and the drama school. This isolation is particularly glaring in the graduate school's lack of interest in the "dining hall" undergraduate productions. "It's not considered respectable for graduate students to get involved in theater outside of University Theater," McLaughlin says. "Before Brustein, it used to be that graduate students would direct undergraduate productions. Now it's not common for undergraduates to stage a performance and not one graduate student show...
...Again, Brustein has a different story. To the accusation of no contact he recealls his first year at Yale when he offered to "bring the Dramat into the Yale Rep" through a program similar to the program he is now offering Harvard. "I offered them training in the repertory, so they would know what they were doing when they got out on stage. In turn, they would let us identify the talented people...But at the time the Dramat was a proud institution." They turned him down...
Furthermore, Brustein observes he was hired as dean of a graduate school. "Graduate and undergraduate schools only get confused in the arts. You wouldn't expect the dean of the med school to take responsibility for undergraduate chemistry majors...