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...simple idea evolved: the room would be a simple rectangle, half of the seats set in stadium fashion, the other half on elevators capable of being shifted from proscenium style into a second position, making space for the open platform stage (sketch No. 4). Shortly after this breakthrough, Bob Chapman introduced M. Michel St. Denis, noted French producer and theater expert whom the University had asked to advise on the design concept. We spent many profitable hours exchanging theories and ideas. St. Denis was sympathetic with our views, but emphasized "concentration of the audience toward the place of action...
...scheme based on this premise was presented to the Building Committee (consisting of Professor MacLeish, Professor Levin, Dean Bundy, Dean Sert and Professor Chapman) which gave a green light to go ahead full steam...
...point of view of the audiences which will use it. It should be a building which, as building, will create the sense of excitement and expectation which most existing American theaters so flatly fall to give--"severe, uncomfortable, ill-ventilated, dull undecorated or dustily over-glided barns" as Bob Chapman calls them. It should be, to quote Chapman again: "A magical, delightful, stimulating experience to attend the theater; and this means architecturally, a departure from almost every playhouse in America...
...young and talented would repair to train themselves for the stage as they have in the past to train themselves for the bar or pulpit or the scholar's life or the director's or the politician's. But at the one time that he expressed this hope, Chapman accepted and supported the faculty view that there should be schools or department of drama at Harvard and that no formal teaching dramatic arts and should be offered...
First, Archibald MacLeish argues that Loeb's stated function--"plays for audiences"--is not inconsistent with artistic integrity, because good drama needs an "attending consciousness." Robert Chapman, Director of the Center, writes that Loeb seeks a "middle ground" between the theatre school and laissez-faire amateurism. (Page...