Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HDC took a calculated risk when it chose to give T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." For although the play contains some of Eliot's most beautiful poetry, it is immensely difficult to perform. With little action and long choral passages that are spoken by as many as fifteen people, there is an ever-present danger that "Murder in the Cathedral" will seem more a series of dialogues on the problems of sainthood than a unified dramatic whole...
Amateur College playwrights will have an opportunity to produce original one-act plays under the supervision of the Dramatic Club's new Theatre Workshop, HDC president Peter L. Shoup '55 announced yesterday...
Shoup Heads HDC...
Also at this meeting, a student subcommittee, composed of Neil Smith '54, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, and Anthony Herrey '54, HDC designer, will present suggestions on the kind of new building which world best meet the needs of student dramatic organizations...
...this year, at least, the course of Harvard drama seems clear. The HDC has announced Murder in the Cathedral for its third production, and after a seasonal curtain raiser of MacLeish, the Poets' Theatre is launched into Yeats. Evidently this will not be another season featuring the drama of Shakespeare and the wit of Noel Coward...