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...playwright Arthur Kopit, whose works include Wings, Nine, and the current End of the World, four years at Harvard defies encapsulations. What would he title a play about his undergraduate career? "I don't like nostalgia," he says. "I find...
...Kopit's history with Harvard undergraduate theater indicates the unlimited opportunities of those days. "There was so much original theater," he says of a time when three or four new productions went up each weekend. "We felt very fortunate that there was no official drama department. With the Loeb came an institutionalization of theater," he adds...
...While Kopit says he recognizes the advantages of the Loeb, and welcomes its presence, he remains grateful that, 25 years ago, "we had to do it all. There was freedom to fail. The sheer pleasure of working in Harvard theater has rarely been matched...
...Kopit also recalls a tradition of Christmas plays, performed just before the winter break. He wrote one, entitled Don Juan in Texas. "It had to do with getting some Radcliffe girls in a bubble bath," he says...
...Kopit says, "it was a bit harder for someone who was Jewish to get into the Pudding. I think there was some kind of bias, but not a strong...