Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Dramatic Club will produce two plays without fail this spring, even if it can't present both at the Loeb Drama Center...
...recent meeting, the HDC voted to submit Shakespeare's "Tempest" and Marlowe's "Jew of Malta" for consideration by the Loeb Advisory Committee. If the Committee turns either of the plays down, the HDC will seek to produce it at another theater...
Rentley praised the promise of the Loeb Dramatic Center, but warned that millions of dollars do not necessarily produce good theater. Theater and young people go well together, however, he observed, because enthusiasm is "a prerequisite for successful drama," and young people are so often stagestruck," Think of the term "stagestruck," Bentley advised. "Notice that the theatre 'strikes' like lightning. You can be struck by the truth, but you're never 'truthstruck.' Indeed, the truth only 'dawns,' while the theater 'strikes...
...interest" is manifested at the University in the forthcoming production of Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle at Loeb. Bentley, who is himself taking an active interest in the production, is enthusiastic over the theater's "possibilities." He considers the play "the final statement of Brecht's development," in that it is "the most poetic in a non-cynical way; the most mellow; and, in a way not associated with Brecht, the most delicate. In other words, it is Brecht saying the same things, but with less savagery...
Bentley's presence at the University this year should add as much vitality to local theater as the beautiful paraphernalia afforded by the Loeb center. His standards are high and his purpose serious. When he says "America has no theater that stands for anything," he is doing more than criticizing; he is challenging...