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Student response to the Loeb Shakespeare-Marlowe festival has been unprecedented, according to Daniel Seltzer, acting director of the Loeb Drama Center. Over 300 students came to the preliminary interviews for the project, held during the two weeks before vacation...
...range of potential achievement among Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, working on theater as amateurs, is immense; nobody wants "an Olympian troupe in the Loeb disguised as students." What everyone has always wanted--I assume the production of plays enlarge themselves in a happy and productive way. Daniel Seltzer Acting Director. Loeb Drama Center Assistant Professor of English
...last capacity as a writer, Seltzer is blocked by a lack of secondary material; "No one went home and wrote down that Burbage was good last night as Hamlet and why." Using textual and stage notes, Seltzer must infer what the Elizabethans felt was real in terms of acting. "Every age thinks its own are is real. But obviously the Globe player differs from the method actor. The ideal of realism begins in the mind of the artist. It's the old idea of imitating nature...
...paunchy Seltzer "imitating the nature" of Falstaff in Henry IV, Part I was more an interpretive than a physical problem. "Although a rather old man to be enjoying the games of boys, Sir John must be prevented from becoming a pathetic figure. Somehow we must laugh at the things he does, not the man." Developing the character was a formidable and slow process. "The actor must find the way in which the text relates to his imagination; the fun is in fooling around with any number of equally valid ways of projecting a line...
...fooling around with a line" is much more than fun to Daniel Seltzer. "Drama," he says, "is a form which must be made meaningful when one is in a play and then feels it. This are cannot be taught unless one does it." He should know...