Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tonight is Saturday night. There will be a queue around the block of the University Theater. The Brattle will have standing room only. But the Loeb Drama Center will be deserted as usual, except for a new technicians and the faithful band of HDC members who come regularly to gossip and just hang around...
...year after its opening, the Loeb suffers from malaise. And the inbred criticism of Harvard drama circles helps little to diagnose the illness. It may be true that the faculty committee has been unwise in selecting productions for the main stage. It may also be true that the HDC has not demonstrated the capacity to provide an effective alternative to faculty leadership. But that is all beside the point...
...Loeb or the HDC could sponsor informal dramatic readings by professional actors and playwrights. A mateur readings might also be appropriate, perhaps in connection with lower level Humanities courses. The Loeb faculty committee could take the obvious step of sponsoring a playwriting contest or of opening its main stage to short runs of original plays. The HDC might try producing one play that was frankly popular and could take polls in the Houses to survey Harvard tastes. The Loeb management and the Harvard student dramatic groups, in short, could expand activities to make the Loeb an exciting place...
Several members of the club expressed the feeling that students had not only lost control, but even a sense of control over plays to be put on at Loeb. One observer, not an HDC member, said he found "no obligation to the Harvard population" among those who spoke at the meeting...
Charles W. Hayford '63, President of the HDC and producer of White Devil, cautioned that the Club had backed only two shows a term in previous years, and could not definitely count on the personnel and energy necessary for an expanded effort. Hayford also indicated that White Devil, which opens Oct. 26, was making satisfactory progress in rehearsal...