Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayer-Babe group may be the archetypal theatre group, but it's far form the only one. Many directors work consistently with at least a few of the same techies. Techies work for their friends, and for directors they respect and like and have confidence in. Director Leland Moss, for example, can always count on Harvard's leading young man of the tech scene, George Lindsay, to tech direct for him. There are usually a few people Lindsay can call on--Ted Shortcliffe used to work with him, and Mike Madison and Jussi Helava have been helping out recently, along...
Bill Carter '65, a legendary techie who sometimes worked for Mayer, commented from the perspective of a three-and-a-half year absence that theatre provides "an association of people not completely defined by a glass of scotch. People become friendly by common experience, more than by academics. It isn't necessarily so, but since theatre is the largest single activity [at Harvard] it must do very well whatever activities...
Clique or not, that certainly was a terrifyingly impressive, distant and coherent group of people. It was the same Tim Mayer-Thomas Babe directed group that Howard Cutler worked with, and included comedian Stephen Kaplan '68, stage manager Victoria Traube '68, and producer and HDC president Honor Moore '67, Peter Jaszi '68, and Michael Boak '69, among others...
...LEAST there were advantages in that clique. It revolved around Mayer--he had charisma, "talent, flash, élan that brought people in, and a controlled theatrical madness." Scott Kirkpatrick, who built for the summer company for two seasons and produced Erie said they felt they were doing something good that wasn't in existence anyplace else around here. "We thought we did a good job, and that we could affect people...
...DUNSTER House Dramatic Erection group, formed last year, rivalled the Mayer one for cohesion, although it had an altogether different approach. Instead of having a central figure and a one-Production-at-a-time commitment, it was a group made up only of techies who enjoyed working together and would run off to save any show that needed saving...