Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smith said he expects very few expenses in running the lab, since the four teachers, who include Robert Chapman, Professor of English and Mrs. Mary Howe are volunteering their services...
...Chapman said yesterday he wants to teach the "classical rather than the naturalistic, Stanislavsky technique of acting which it the dominant method used on the American stage." The classical technique, he explained, is the style of acting which should be used in the plays of Shakespeare, Moliere, Racine and the Greek dramatists. "The difference in the two styles is the distinction between rhetoric and ordinary conversation in diction, and between ballet and touch football in movement," he added...
...hope," said Chapman, "that the lab will be an impetus to acting of this kind in America as well as a training place and proving ground for undergraduate productions...
...will focus on basic techniques of diction and pantomime. Chapman said he and Mrs. Howe would spend two hours a week in acting instruction. Students will be asked to spend at least two other hours a week, probably divided between fencing and ballet instruction and memory work for the acting classes...
...still has no place to meet. Until a permanent location is found, the acting classes will meet either in Chapman's room in Eliot House or in Mrs. Howe's home...