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...came to Harvard in ’53 and the president had just recently said that there was no place for drama in education,” Aaron says. Fortunately, limited faculty interest wasn’t enough to discourage Harvard’s many aspiring actors from seeking out opportunities to perform...
...There was an upsurge of interest in drama in those years,” Stephen A. Aaron ’57 recalls. “Everybody was doing plays all over the place. They were done outside, in the Adams House swimming pool, in the Eliot House dining room. Everybody was putting plays in every possible place...
...Jean Genet’s play “Deathwatch” was one such independent undertaking, produced by John M.S.W. Eyre ’57. Also directed by Aaron, the play earned the critical acclaim of The Crimson and was later invited to perform at the Yale Drama Festival in the spring...
...addition to the generosity of student patrons, The Crimson attributed the rise of drama at Harvard, in part, to the post-WWII influx of eager thespians, whose numbers had been depleted during the war. The HDC’s creation of a training program preparing novice actors to tread the Harvard boards also contributed to the increasing popularity of Harvard dramatics...
...popularity of theater on campus grew, concerns arose that there was indeed too much theater at Harvard. Such sentiments prompted The Crimson to call for a “regulation of drama at Harvard” to keep the “drama renaissance more a flowering and less a mushrooming” in a 1957 editorial. The HDC was solicited to set up a master calendar of dramatic productions—much like the one in place today—in order to prevent competition for ticket sales and end the “glut and fast?...