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...HDC New Theatre Workshop has existed for the past two years mostly to give new actors and directors a chance to gain some stage experience. With the production of Juan Alono's The Death of Don Juan, which was published in the winter issue of the Advocate, the Workshop resumes its second function--producing new plays. The play proves quite good enough to deserve the author's further attention, but it still needs some...
...number of the senior members of the HDC apparently used their influence to defeat the more radical proposals of newer Club officials. The Board eventually decided to continue its efforts to secure adequate shop space from the University. Board members were optimistic last night about the chances of liquidating the Club's $2000 debt with the proceeds from Doctor's Dilemma, opening next week, and from "one or two other productions...
Previously, Green had felt that the disbanding of the HDC might lead the Administration to assist in forming a new, and larger College drama organization. In this case, he said, disbanding would be a step towards the much-desired goal of more centralized management of College dramatic activities...
Green reported that "a member of the Administration told us Monday afternoon that he would just as soon see drama at Harvard discontinued until the new theatre is built." Another member of the HDC Executive Board lamented what he called the University's anti-theatre policy," as manifested in its unwillingness to create a faculty drama department and its refusal actively to support the HDC...
Harrison and Green both agreed in calling the present set-up of the HDC "impossible" and said that "Harvard has led us to believe that a College-wide dramatic organization is not wanted at this time...