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This year the Dramat will produce three main stage shows and three or four Ex performances. The drama school produces two main stage shows a year and six to seven Ex shows. Meanwhile, the company produces seven shows a year plus a Christmas show at its theater...
...theater houses a main stage and an experimental theater (the Ex), like the Loeb. Unlike the Loeb, no soundproofing was installed between the two stages, so only one show may go on a night, further restricting an already cramped schedule. The repertory's shop is located in the building. Dramat students are permitted access to the company's extensive collection, but, understandably, the company has first priority. The Dramat also has its offices in the building...
...controversy: Victoria B. Bailey, last year's president of the Dramat and a four-year member of its executive board, recalls a bleaker era. During her freshman year, the Dramat had one slot in the Ex and two performances on the main stage. For main stage performances, the Dramat was allotted one week's rehearsal time. "We would go in on Friday to a bare stage and start one week later," Bailey says. The other weeks of the fall and spring season went to the drama school. For weeks at a time, she remembers, "we couldn't see any sign...
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...