Word: hdc
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Furthermore all main stage productions would suffer from the HDC plan, not just misplaced House productions, because all plays would have lower budgets. Increasing the number of shows would entail cutting the budget for each from $2500 to $1700. This is supposed to encourage experimentation and improvisation of sets, props, and costumes. But this kind of corner-cutting is more appropriate to House drama than to the main stage...
Starting today, the HDC executive committee will accept directors' applications for the first eight plays to be produced next year. Peter A. Jazzi '68, a member of the executive committee, explained that the number of applications received and the type of productions suggested will determine whether the HDC will actually be able to go through with its plan...
...application from will be available in the HDC office in the Loeb beginning today and will be due on or before April 16. Jazzi added that the HDC hopes to have the plays selected by May 1 so that it can forward the choices to the Faculty committee meeting...
...principal difficulty the HDC will encounter in producing an additional four plays next year however, will be in attracting qualified students to design and build the shows. Jaszi commented that the small group of students in charge of the technical aspects of the Loeb's productions will not handle the four new plays alone...
...Several HDC members also pointed out hat the program is expected to encourage more undergraduates to join the Loeb productions since their participation is necessary if the expanded schedule is to prove workable...