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...Review solicited articles from Daniel Seltzer, associate professor of English and associate director of the Loeb, and Thomas Babe '63, a graduate student who has worked on the main stage as actor, director and playwright. Seltzer's article is a visionary discussion of the possibilities of university theatre; Babe's is a critical report on the evolution of the Loeb. Taken together, the two articles offer quite convincing evidence that theatre at Harvard is not being used with much wisdom...
Modern European plays come to the main stage via Broadway. The only American plays produced, aside from the required original student play every other year, have been Long Day's Journey Into Night and A View from the Bridge, the one surely a chestnut, the other hardly a rarely performed work...
Strangely, the spirit of experiment--which Seltzer considers one of the undergraduate theatre's greatest potential advantages--scarcely exists on the Loeb main stage. Babe's article suggests several reasons why this...
...problem with the new arrangements became clear last fall when the committee met to chose directors for the spring term and found that three of its five members had themselves submitted applications for main stage slots. A second arose this Spring when the committee elected a majority of technical workers over actors and directors...
...acted in Loeb shows and directed elsewhere, his Loeb friends will probably have seen his shows. But if he has no connections at the Loeb, he is far less likely to be chosen. Thus Robert Ginn, who has acted at the Loeb, was awarded a main stage show after directing Adams House's Andorra last Fall. A less well-known group from Lowell House is considered less likely to be chosen this Spring...