Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year the Dramat will produce three main stage shows and three or four Ex performances. The drama school produces two main stage shows a year and six to seven Ex shows. Meanwhile, the company produces seven shows a year plus a Christmas show at its theater...
...conflict is two-pronged: First is an endless battle between undergraduates and Brustein's drama school over stage time, access to the shop and props. Second is the widespread feeling among undergraduates that Brustein has little respect for their productions, and even less affection for the undergrads as a whole...
...facts: Yale has two main theaters on campus--the University Theater, whose stage is shared by undergraduates and the drama school and the Repertory Theater, a renovated church and the elusive domain of the company...
...University Theater is similar to the Loeb's, and the arrangement between undergraduates and the drama school is parallel to the offer Brustein has extended to Harvard under his proposed undergraduate drama program. The theater houses a main stage and an experimental theater (the Ex), like the Loeb. Unlike the Loeb, no soundproofing was installed between the two stages, so only one show may go on a night, further restricting an already cramped schedule. The repertory's shop is located in the building. Dramat students are permitted access to the company's extensive collection, but, understandably, the company has first...
...supporting cast, led by the gum-cracking, orgasm-seeking Phil major from Brooklyn College and Great Neck, Doris Levine (played nicely by Jaleh Poorooshasb), camps and hams through Allen's inspired lunacy. Every new character who walks onstage builds the madness to a higher pitch until the whole stage explodes in a riot of screaming neurotics. Particularly funny among the crowds of people who come on stage are David Margolin and Bonnie Freid as the Fates, Bob and Wendy; the chorus of Rich Buck and Andy Pugh, and Tom Saunders as Lorenzo Miller, who, in a wonderful game-show-host...