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...same week, HDC president Peter L. Shoup '55 announced the founding of its New Theatre Workshop, whose main purpose was to present, on a budget of between $10 and $25 each, live productions of plays written by students. For the first time in many years, the student playwright was accorded formal recognition, encouragement, and an outlet through which he could obtain, as Archibald MacLeish has said, the necessary experience of feeling "the blush of shame" that comes when he sees his own work produced. The Workshop has continued right up to the present and has fulfilled its mission admirably...
...When the HDC founded the Workshop, it also established another ancillary institution called the Children's Theatre. This group presented stage versions of classic children's tales in Radcliffe's Agassiz Theatre. Aimed primarily at young audiences, the Children's Theatre gave, over several years, a series of productions that charmed both the young...
...spring term ended with the HDC's production in Sanders of O'Neill's Marco Millions. This was the largest show ever undertaken at Harvard. It was beautifully acted by a huge cast of 75, and had stunning sets and costumes; but it was not a big popular success--the public was not yet ready for this play, which, although highly unorthodox and exotic, is a masterful work...
...rate, the "renaissance" was well under way. The HDC reached its post-War peak in the spring of 1956 with its Sanders arena production of Miller's Death of a Salesman. This was an absolutely top-notch show of extraordinary depth and polish--fully the equal of any professional production the play has ever...
...next spring the HDC celebrated the occasion of its 100th major production by impressively staging Hamlet uncut. But, largely owing to an excessive costume budget, the show left the Club about $3000 in debt. Last fall's fine production of Ibsen's The Master Builder made a large profit, however, and the HDC can enjoy the novelty of beginning this academic year in the black...