Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work. Mark Mosca, who directed it, took English 125 "Elizabethanand Jacobean Dramatists," and went to the Harvard Dramatic Club with a proposal to do Jonson's masterpiece, Bartholomew Fair, Bartholomew Fair is not nearly as well-known as The Alchemist, and is much more difficult to stage, to the HDC chose the sure-fire-alternative. The HDC has been rewarded with packed houses, but settled for an evening with no surprises for anyone--with a good cast, perceptive direction, and an appreclative but not overwhelmed audience. How can we believe that the HDC will open up the mainstage to student...
...Loeb anyway, which receives the only official university funding for theater at Harvard, it certainly should not be. Again, personal and political issues seem to be involved. But if they have been, they have also been effectively hushed up by the HDC board's closed-door policy, whereby rejected applicants for slots were left with no idea as to why their plays were rejected. LaZebnik found similar seemingly irrational standards of choice in other areas of Harvard drama. His rejection by Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid seemed to him to have been based on the belief that...
Impossible as it would be to come up with figures on the number of frustrated playwrights at Harvard who've written works that have never been read, much less produced, buried away amongst their old term papers, such people do exist. In a drawer in the HDC office there is a pile of two dozen scripts, many written by Harvard and Radcliffe students, aching to be read and produced. And a fair number of Hasty Pudding scripts--all of them original--are rejected every year. The Premiere Society has already received manuscripts to consider for future productions. All that...
...last, it looks like something positive is going to be done, HPS, recognizing a bad situation, is developing a remedy. And the newly elected board of the HDC plans to radically alter traditional HDC policy by doing away with the secrecy with which decisions about Mainstage show have been made in the past, in a meeting to be held at the Loeb on March, I for everyone interested in applying for Loeb slots, the board plans to implement a new open policy whereby it will collaborate with the applicants to establish the criteria for deciding which shows will be produced...
...perhaps not-so-mysterious mystery of why there has been such a dearth of original theater starving Harvard-Radcliffe drama of vital innovations may never be solved. But if the Premiere Society can live up to its alleged ambitions as publicized in its massive PR campaign, and if the HDC board actually alters its policy in a way no past boards have managed to do, such mysteries may become irrelevant. Since theater attracts a larger number of participating undergraduates than any other extra-curricular activity, it is only logical that original work should play a primary role in Harvard-Radcliffe...