Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interviewed for the festival -- so many that casting had to be done with mimeographed form letters sent to each applicant, telling him whether he had been accepted, and what parts he had been given. With these letters the roof fell on most personal visions for the festival. The old Loeb hands -- graduate students, outside people, and a small clique of upperclassmen -- found themselves, almost without exception, cast in minor roles...
...large percentage of the 250 people chosen to participate in the festival were inexperienced, younger undergraduates, many of whom wrested juicy parts away from their elders. Seltzer was bringing a totally new generation into the Loeb. And yet, as his detractors were quick to note, Seltzer had given himself the juiciest parts of all. He was to direct Julius Caesar, starring Hamlin, and to star in King Lear, directed by Hamlin. Many excluded from major roles in the festival saw a Seltzer conspiracy to build an organization geared toward Seltzer's goal of putting the Loeb in the course catalogue...
...Julius Caesar was poorly received, as was King Lear, which followed. The Marlowe readings, somewhat more successful, were no triumph either. Some of the actors consigned to small roles in the Shakespeare plays, or to larger ones onlyin the readings, had declined their parts to become temporary Loeb exiles. They were hardly overcome with grief over the Festival's failings...
...also had undeniable merits. Seltzer had succeeded in opening the Loeb to students who might never have gotten involved. He had, regardless of his apparent or real motives, introduced academic structure to production work, and reversed the positions of the in-group and the out-group. Now the only exiles were disgruntled elders...
...influence at the Loeb during its first four years was erratic and undefinable. Student directors generally chose their own plays, but often with advance consideration for what the Faculty Committee would tolerate. In a few instances when undergraduates put forth radical proposals, they were quickly overruled...