Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HRDC has done enormous amounts of work over the past year to bring Dillon's expertise to The Living staff and the rest of Harvard. The idea was first proposed by student playwright and director Todd Kessler '94 as a way of changing the direction of the HRDC's shows on the Loeb mainstage...
...open meeting of the HRDC in January, 1994, "[Kessler] brought up the idea of bringing in someone professional to direct, and having just one mainstage show instead of two," according to former HRDC President Sarah T.Stewart '95. "The goal was to cut down on thenumber of shows so that the quality of the showscould...
...idea was the source of debate amongmembers of the HRDC community. "I was veryhesitant coming in because bringing in aprofessional director sets a percedent," saidTerrell P. McSweeney '97, Assistant Director ofThe Living and HRDC Campus Liaison. "Ihave a very strong feeling that Harvard drama isstudent-run and should continue to be, becauseit's really excellent...
Freilinger objected to the idea. "Making theother mainstage slot in the spring a joke--whichis what one-acts would become--amounts todegrading the mainstage and will do nothing tohelp theater at Harvard...
...Perhaps one-acts might work, but keeping theintegrity of one of the mainstage slots as apurely student-run show is a good idea despite thepolitics." said Matthews. "Inherently, any newproject will have more politics surrounding it;the first step is always the hardest...