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Chapman feels responsible for making sure that the Loeb runs, as he puts it, on a "two-party system" -- that is, for both participants and spectators. In advising the HDC, he tries to see that a balance is struck between educating the students and edifying audiences. When he directs Etherege's Man of Mode next month, it will be both "because it's not the sort of play students would ordinarily do," and because it will permit some of the six or seven hundred people in Harvard's English Department to see what a Restoration comedy looks like...
There are really two sides to the Chapman coin. Heads, he looks down his nose at the Loeb; tails, he's a slightly discriminating perfectionist. "People don't ask him to rehearsals because they are afraid he would sneer," says one HDC member. "If he can't do a show exactly right, he can't bear to do it," says another. "He's kind of a snob. He won't do a show that would be compromised from the beginning...
...fact, Crooks said, had the HDC decided to set up the Summer Players before May of this year, the Summer School might have subsidized its current efforts. "Our budget is submitted in February," Crooks said, "and by the time they came to us, there was nothing we could...
Actors and directors who work at the repertory theatre on the Loeb main stage during the summer are given grants-in-aid by the Summer School for their work. Unlike the people who appear in the HDC productions at Agassiz, mostly students at the College or Harvard graduate schools, performers at the Loeb are recruited from drama schools throughout the country...
Mayer said that the HDC did not expect to receive this kind of support, but "we would like our people to eat." He claimed to have eaten but one meal in the past two days and that a single cheeseburger...