Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entirely devoted to artistic burlesque--the fig-leaf garb was abandoned in favor of a more inclusive costume when University Hall read the dispatches--HDC spends its more normal moments as a laboratory of experimental theater. Its purpose is primarily education of its members, and for this reason most of its plays are first performances of obscure works...
...addition to big productions staged two or three times a year, another phase of HDC's work is their "reading plays" performed frequently on an informal basis. During the past term G.B. Shaw's "In Good King Charles Golden Days" received its American premiere here as part of this program, as well as an adaptation of "Troilus and Cressida" and a student play, "The Devil's Art," by Allen Friedman...
These plays are put on chiefly to encourage student writing and to learn through criticism" according to HDC president Paul Burgraff. "Admission to the reading plays is free to anyone, and we encourage criticism both of writing and performances...
...least that the Harvard Dramatic Club has given them something new and vital instead of a warmed-over version of a corner store classic." He goes on to say that "More than shrewd choice has gone into the play, too. Within the harrowing confines of Sanders Theater the HDC has created an exceptionally professional production--satisfactory in acting, setting, staging, music...
...teamed up willy-nilly to illustrate the undeniable fact that there is now no available stage from which a college-sized organization can operate with any degree of comfort. Hampered by University restrictions on what can and what cannot be done to the physical properties of Sanders Theater, the HDC had to work something of a seene-shifting miracle, operate without benefit of a curtain, and speak their lines in an acoustical monstrosity in order to stage their show at all. A week later, the Veterans Theater found themselves saddled with a 1500 seat auditorium rented from Rindge Tech...