Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people have been thinking about Harvard theatre in terms of power and politics for half a dozen years now. But while the issues discussed last week were familiar the tone of the debate suggests they have lost their old appeal, that the fruitless controversy over Faculty control of the Loeb...
...Loeb began to make people nervous before it was completed. During the '50s Harvard drama had flourished in Aggasiz and the House dining halls. Producing organizations abounded--and were constantly in debt. The Loeb, it was feared, with its moveable stage, its novel winch system, its fancy lighting board, would destroy the esprit and the air of crisis that had given so many shoestring productions their vitality...
Closely allied was a fear of Faculty control. Clearly a $2 million building could not be left in the charge of undergraduates. But would the professionals serve as advisors or as managers? When the Committee on the Administration of the Loeb announced that "the Drama Center will be used to produce plays for audiences," some suspected that experimentation would be sacrificed for superficial polish and respectability...
Hopefully the recent debate has highlighted the irrelevance of the traditional controversy about the Loeb. It appears that the critics of Faculty control have been worrying about a largely theoretical danger. When and if the Faculty does forbid a reasonable and imaginative project--then it will be time to fight. But if the HDC is to revitalize Harvard theatre, it must turn now from institutional to dramatic concerns...
...members of the College knew what was happening at the Loeb under the guise of Siddhartha. Rumors appeared from time to time--"Cross-cultural music-drama...Indian music...soloists from the Martha Graham company." But no one knew what the end product would...