Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Student Government President Joan Braverman '50 told Miss Davis yesterday that the oversight could probably he remedied at a Council executive board meeting today, if the proper credentials are handed...
Other members of the cast include James A. Gregg '51, Usher; Daniel B. McCook '48, Defendant; Joan Dexter '52, Plaintiff; David N. Shapiro '51, Plaintiff's Counsel; and David H. Barnhouse '49, Foreman of the Jury. The Jury will consist of 12 Puritans. The chorus of partisan spectators and bridesmaids comes from the 'Cliffe...
...halls, the VTW had learned that the most popular playwrights were Shakespeare, Shaw, and Noel Coward--a winning combination which might have come as a surprise to any but the last two named. A Shakespearean play would have been too expensive for the indebted Workshop, so Shaw's "Saint Joan" was selected for their second production in the spring...
Professor Herschel Baker has told his class in modern drama that he can never again speak on "Saint Joan" without recalling the Workshop's production of the play. It has had a memorable effect on all who saw it. Presented in Sanders, a theater which offers some of the most unreasonable handicaps ever placed on a college group (no proscenium, no sconery allowed, no backstage, no dressing rooms, no curtains, etc.), the VTW production made inspirational use of its handicaps. Aside from the excellent cast now working "ensemble," the real coup do theatre was made by the designer, John Holabird...
...Saint Joan" paid the old debt and the Workshop's four productions since, all Shakesperean, have either met expenses or made a profit. Under its new and more accurate name, the Harvard Theater Workshop presented in 1947-8 "Henry IV, Part One" and "Richard II." "Henry IV" was the first play in which the group used recorded music to great effect. This was unquestionably the most popular production of the HTW, and one which brought it praise and attention, not only from the critics, but from leading figures of the academic and the theatrical worlds as well...