Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Skolnik's production of A View from the Bridge, the other fall HDC production, was only a limited success. The spring productions were bombs...
...have been mumbling that for years now, and for some, it has become an obsession. Some of the best actors and directors at Harvard prefer not to work on the main stage. A few refuse to work in the building at all. Behind this winter's reorganization of the HDC was the realization that the Loeb still isn't the center it's supposed...
Perhaps the most common complaint about the Loeb is that it feels impersonal, that it is not fun to work in, that there isn't enough going on in it. It is this problem that the students who proposed the new HDC constitution that was adopted in February hoped to solve. The history of the battle over the constitution is a good indication of just what this problem of atmosphere is thought to amount...
Back in December, John Anderson began worrying about the chaotic state of the HDC, supposedly the college's major producing organization. It had not met all year, the treasury was in trouble, the number of people showing up to work on shows seemed to be declining. Together with David Maynard, Laura Esterman, and John Lithgow, he worked out a proposal to place control of the club in the hands of a non-elective, self-perpetuating executive committee. The four of them were to form the committee, which would have power to select all plays for main stage performance. After...
...committee. Speaking for the five students who proposed the plan, Mayer countered by saying that the Faculty would not accept an elective committee. In a masterly speech, he described the poor condition of the club, agreed that free elections would be nice, but asserted that so long as the HDC wanted to work in the Loeb, it had to please the Faculty directors...