Word: dramatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure, the Yale University Theater is a well-equipped house featuring a complicated lighting device known as the Isenour Board. This board, which permitts the presetting of lighting combinations, seems to be a source of great pride to the members of the Yale Dramatic Association. Indeed, the very nickname for the group, "Dramat," bears a ring that might testify to an infatuation with mechanical efficiency. To some of the visiting directors, however, the Isenour Board was something of a Frankenstein's Monster--it exhibited an alarming tendency to make the lights flicker and dim at the wrong time...
Since the purpose of the festival was a fairly limited one--to bring together theater groups from schools throughout the East and let them see each other's work--it is safe to say that the festival accomplished its aim. Whether it also, as the Yale Dramatic Association hoped, stimulateed college dramatic activity must remain somewhat open to question. It is quite possible, though, that the three or four top-rate shows like Miss Julie, Finnigans Wake, and Deathwatch set standards of acting and production techniques which the other groups will try to emulate. The Dramat seems to have been...
...Yale Dramat is presenting three one-act plays tonight at 8:30. The plays are by Wilder, Maeterlinck, and Gogol...
...Yale Dramat is presenting "The Man Who Came to Dinner" at the University Theatre, Friday and Saturday. A combined Harvard-Yale Glee Club concert will be held at Woolsey Hall at 8:30 p.m. Friday...