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...popped full-grown from the skulls of its progenitors. It all started when a galaxy of eager veterans poured back into the Dramatic Club roster last fall, ready for action but not for what they called a "tightly-knit social organization." The older men, among them pre-war HD members, set up their own "veterans' workshop" producing unit, chose a play, and were promptly read out of the club for "insubordination" by the insulted hierarchy. Pulling into their own back-yard, the veterans decided to carry the ball alone...
...Adam the Creator," either, but the competition hadn't really begun in those early days--the two groups even offered each other helpful hints from time to time. It wasn't until the heady aroma of "Saint Joan" began to fill the local columns and airwaves that the HD worries began...
...planned by the vets, as the first production of the combined group. After a flurry of conflicting statements; in the course of which the two clubs never actually got together for a discussion, the Dramatic Club spurned the proposal. The primary official reason for the turn-down was that HD wants to continue working on "experimental drama;" but lbsen is hardly that, and the real cause seems to be pride in the organization's name and history...
...only the balcony of Sanders, and just remove the orchestra seats-the straw-floored pit would not be favored by modern theatre-goers-would present difficulties. In the first place, many of HD's sponsors are old creatures who will eat up Shakespeare but who wouldn't be able to see or hear unless they were well in front. The idea was pretty startling, moreover, for people who can't see choice seats going to waste for the sake of antiquity. It would have been a little difficult, too, to seat an assortment of Elizabethan fops on stage, or perhaps...
...HD says it's not trying to recapture the petty minutiae of the sixteenth century anyway. Shakespeare does mean something quite unacademic today, and the Dramatic Club aims to keep him alive. Theodore Spencer and Fritz Jessner have accomplished the revitalization, with a blue pencil. The Elizabethans loved the long speeches, but modern movie-trained audiences would walk out on them...