Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Executive Committee of the Harvard Dramatic Club voted two weeks ago to increase the number of plays performed on the Loeb main stage next year from eight to twelve. The Committee argued that this would permit more undergraduates to use the main stage facilities as actors, technicians, and directors. The Loeb has too long intimidated undergraduates, they said; most view it as the handsome plaything of a few near-professionals and theatrical geniuses. They insisted that directors and technicians who worked only on House productions should be given a chance to experiment with the main stage...
...goal of involving more undergraduates in the Loeb is a worthy one; the main stage, which has increasingly excluded undergraduates, was conceived as a student, rather than professional, activity. But no matter how well-intentioned the current proposal is, the Harvard drama community does not have the resources to put it into practice...
There are simply not enough skilled technicians, actors, and directors to put on twelve main stage productions next year. Even this year, directors have been hard-pressed to find casts and crews. Few of the actors in Loeb plays this spring came from the University; many were semi-pros from the Boston Conservatory, B.U., and the community at large. Technical personnel have been especially scarce, for the main stage demands a familiarity with staging and equipment which cannot be acquired in the Adams House Dining Room...
Only a certain number of undergraduates have the dogged theatrical ambition to hang around the Loeb long enough to master its technical demands. The peculiar virtue of the Loeb is that it is equipped to stage large-scale, technically polished, professional-style productions. But only a hard core of theater lovers has been willing to spend week after week on production after production to qualify to use the Loeb's resources. If the Loeb staff wants to fill its huge stage, and large seating capacity, it must rely on devotees like these...
...punch in revealing some of the first details of their manned space flights. In addition, he has cooperated with the U.S. space program by using the Jodrell Bank telescope to obtain telemetry from the Pioneer and Mariner space probes, even to send the signal that fired the second stage on the Pioneer 5 deep-space probe...