Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four years ago, when Robert Brustein and his American Repertory Theatre (ART) came to Cambridge in a unique partnership between drama and academia, the controversy lasted from September until May. Most student dramatists opposed the experiment, fearing that sharing the Loeb building and stage with a professional troupe would inhibit experimentation and curtail student opportunities. And when the deal finally went through, vocal opponents may well have taken comfort in the thought that the contract mandated a full-scale review four years later a review which, according to Faculty rules, could result in anything from a rubber stamp...
...members were originally supposed to teach and guide students in using the Loeb's staggering resources, including a mainstage which demands near-professional expertise to handle. On the academic side, ART-ers were to teach a small core of drama courses offered by a Faculty Committee on Dramatic Arts, chaired by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Finally, the close contact with Harvard was to benefit American theater as an institution, infusing it with a needed literary acuity and sense of the past...
Students working in the Loeb now, both on the mainstage or in the smaller Ex. are calling for more, not less, assistance and inspiration from the professionals, and there is no reason Harvard should not pursue its initial goals and give it to them. Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC) say they want more structures within the Loeb itself for interaction with technical experts and other professionals...
MORE THAN most students involved in Loeb or House drama productions, Martha Hackett '83 straddles the two very opposite and sometimes conflicting worlds of professional actress and full-time student. An American Literature and Languages major, she spends the day at classes and her job at the Adams House Library. But at night she joins the world of the professional actors in Harvard's American Repertory Theater (ART), where The Boys From Syracuse is running until March...
...against the window and wave good-bye to their incarcerated comrade. A couple happily necks in the window, breaking occasionally to beckon farewell, too. A woman taking in the scene shrugs without surprise. "It's the Hasty Pudding, is know.." she says. "I guess we're competing with the Loeb...