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...prior to this year, there was lots of grumbling about that from many of the 600 students active in drama. Members of groups like Black Cast, the Gilbert and Sullivan Society and House drama societies claimed that the HDC was run by Loeb elitists who too often favored their friends when it came to deciding between applications for use of the mainstage...
...committee's report was clear enough: the absolute and corruptable power of the HDC was to be ended, and a new Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Council--composed of members of all drama organizations--would take charge...
...time between Rosovsky's charge and the report's issuance was crucial, the present HDC executives having been elected on an anti-elitist platform, and containing at least five members with ties to drama organizations outside the Loeb...
...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...
...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...