Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think this sort of staging is a mistake. It exaggerates the problems of working in the Loeb because it breaks up the illusion. A band of soldiers, for example, parading down the center aisle, calls attention to the linoleum on the floor and the exit signs above the doors near which they enter. The shallow sets destroy the sense of a world around the actors. Flats too far forward make the action seem two-dimension, which undercuts whatever believability the actors have given the play. The stylized sets in the three spring productions also enhanced the artificiality...
Perhaps the most common complaint about the Loeb is that it feels impersonal, that it is not fun to work in, that there isn't enough going on in it. It is this problem that the students who proposed the new HDC constitution that was adopted in February hoped to solve. The history of the battle over the constitution is a good indication of just what this problem of atmosphere is thought to amount...
...proposal to place control of the club in the hands of a non-elective, self-perpetuating executive committee. The four of them were to form the committee, which would have power to select all plays for main stage performance. After a discussion with Robert Chapman, director of the Loeb, George Hamlin, associate director, and Daniel Seltzer, then on sabbatical and now associate director, they invited Timothy Mayer, president of the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, to join the committee as "best representing the dramatic community outside the Loeb." The five of them then prepared a one-page summary of their...
...proposed the plan, Mayer countered by saying that the Faculty would not accept an elective committee. In a masterly speech, he described the poor condition of the club, agreed that free elections would be nice, but asserted that so long as the HDC wanted to work in the Loeb, it had to please the Faculty directors...
...been. Previously the executive committee had submitted a list of plays and directors to the Faculty Committee on the Theatre and the committee had indicated which it approved. If the students disliked the Faculty's choices, they could haggle, through the Faculty directors of the Loeb, who are members of the committee. The proposed executive committee would select the plays and directors in consultation with the Faculty directors, who would have no vote. But the season still had to get the Faculty committee's approval. Mayer and company promoted the idea that the committee's self-perpetuating status, although unfortunate...