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...more than six months now, the HDC has been preparing for its production of Hamlet. The Club seems to have agreed on just what sort of a show--and what sort of an impression--it wants to give on this occasion...
...HDC has not always held these same views on what to produce. Indeed, its history has been one of shifting emphases and overturned policies to produce only original plays written at the University. Eleven years later, it changed its mind, deciding foreign drama was really more interesting. Then, after another five years, it came to the conclusion that any play, foreign or American, original or well-worn, should be produced if worthwhile and challenging...
Despite these changes, the HDC has always tried to find a place, sometimes large, sometimes small, for the original play. In this as in certain other respects, it has remained true to some of the basic principles of the founders of the Club...
...imagination of experimental theater without sacrificing admirably high standards. The quality is, although the Workshop hates the word, usually professional. Indeed the only real complaint one can make about the Workshop's productions is that they conspicuously employ as stars and director several students already well established in the HDC, thus assuring polish but slightly displacing the idea of the Workshop designed to find and train new faces. But minor complaints cannot obscure the distinction of the Workshop's Emperor Jones and The Purification...
Within the space of two short years theatre has become an increasingly important part of undergraduate life at Harvard. Up until this season drama has played a key role in the stepped-up stage activity. A new Eliot House Drama Group enjoyed overwhelming success in all its productions and HDC's major performance, Death of a Salesman, drew rave reviews. At the same time, however, the local music groups did not stand by idly...