Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JONES -- SDS; RGA Representative; President, Edmonds House; HDC; PBH Mental Health Committee; Anti-ROTC Campaign; Major: Government...
...HDC prospectus says that the Summer Players "feel that with Aristophanes, to be irreverent is to be faithful." This production is not faithful to Aristophanes' irreverence. For Aristophanes, while he was an expert practitioner of the calculated gross-out, also dared to scream insults in the face of public opinion. And that, as he says himself in this play, is what placed him head and shoulders over his fellow comedy-writers...
...HDC version of Peace, in refusing to meet the serious need for political irreverence, in refusing to put its draft card in the fire, becomes a varsity show where the jokes are unusually dirty. A comedy that vows to be faithful to Aristophanes automatically forswears plot and characterization; its whole raison d'etre is then to give the audience a political goose. This production keeps several of the original jokes, topical ca. 421 B.C., without explaining them; and it ignores, for a long stretch, the wealth of current political garbage to scream about. Without any political venom to make...
Before he delivered the Spencer Lecture last February, that great and good man of the theatre, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, noticed a casting poster for the HDC production of The Plebeians Rehearse The Uprising. Turning to the Associate Professor of English who was shepherding him around the Loeb, Sir Tyrone is said to have asked, "Isn't that the new thriller about de Sade and a lot of French lunatics?" Told that Plebeians was a recent play by Gunter Grass about Brecht, he shook his head, informed sources report, and muttered, "Jumping Jesus. Well, it's good to know...
...other decisions came only after protracted discussion. For the third time in a row, an HDC meeting began without a quorum of members present, so voting on the constitutional amendments was stymied until enough members arrived to make a quorum...