Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters will be the HDC's first major offering of the season, producer Joel F. Henning '61 announced yesterday...
Young, who translated Chekhov for the Modern Library series, has expressed interest in the HDC production and hopes to be able to come to Cambridge...
...rate, the "renaissance" was well under way. The HDC reached its post-War peak in the spring of 1956 with its Sanders arena production of Miller's Death of a Salesman. This was an absolutely top-notch show of extraordinary depth and polish--fully the equal of any professional production the play has ever...
...next spring the HDC celebrated the occasion of its 100th major production by impressively staging Hamlet uncut. But, largely owing to an excessive costume budget, the show left the Club about $3000 in debt. Last fall's fine production of Ibsen's The Master Builder made a large profit, however, and the HDC can enjoy the novelty of beginning this academic year in the black...
...revival of theatre, however, by no means confined itself to the HDC. There was far more energy than the HDC could possibly utilize, and one new group after another added itself to the already existing organizations. By the spring of 1957, every one of the seven Houses, plus the commuters' Dudley Hall, had its own group putting on theatrical productions. The year 1957-58 brought the number of producing organizations to the all-time high of 20. This did not result, however, in the bitter feuding that characterized the first post-War years; the many different groups have operated recently...