Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Discontent with the alleged lack of organized experimental drama at the Loeb's Experimental Theatre has produced a new Harvard drama group, the Harvard-Radcliffe Forum-Theatre...
George E. Hamlin Jr., assistant director of the Loeb, said yesterday that the Forum-Theatre could be "a good thing for Harvard's experimental theatre." He explained that "the Ex has been used largely as a training ground for the mainstage. If the Forum-Theatre encourages real experimental productions at the Ex instead of minor-league Loeb shows, it is to be commended...
Rousmaniere emphasized that the new group has no desire to run the Loeb's Experimental Theatre. "Administrating the Ex would be a burden to the club; we don't want to monopolize it either," he said...
...from the most aggravating difficulty of newspaper reviews -- the hasty thought and hasty writing that are necessary when a reviewer rushes back from a performance and bangs out his article against the pressure of a deadline. The magazines all decided to go in for the same-night reviews of Loeb since only on first nights could a large enough crew be assembled to type, mimeograph, and staple together the rough-paper journals...
...more than a third of the first issue. McLeod, however, is not a good enough writer to carry the magazine by himself. His interview with Robert Chapman is a good idea, well carried out (and certainly the drama reviews ought to offer some comment on the operations of the Loeb). But McLeod's other piece, a discussion of the set for The Tempest, is rendered incomprehensible by the lack of a diagram, and the reviews are undistinguished...