Word: stagings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...controversy: Victoria B. Bailey, last year's president of the Dramat and a four-year member of its executive board, recalls a bleaker era. During her freshman year, the Dramat had one slot in the Ex and two performances on the main stage. For main stage performances, the Dramat was allotted one week's rehearsal time. "We would go in on Friday to a bare stage and start one week later," Bailey says. The other weeks of the fall and spring season went to the drama school. For weeks at a time, she remembers, "we couldn't see any sign...
Negotiating the calender for stage time at the University theater each April was always a nightmare, Bailey says. Representatives of the Dramat waged a yearly struggle with graduate school administrators in an effort to extend stage slots. "Some years Brustein just handed down a calendar without ever asking us for our approval. One year they assigned us our spring vacation as performance time. Another time it was Thanksgiving weekend. And they always considered our reading and exam periods prime weeks for us to perform...
Times have, if not changed, at least improved. In the past few years, after a minimum of haggling, the graduate school administration has granted the Dramat the stage space it requested. But, as Cosmo A. Catalano Jr., technical adviser at the drama school, points out, "The Dramat knows enough now to limit their requests." They've learned to play the game...
...lack of interest in the "dining hall" undergraduate productions. "It's not considered respectable for graduate students to get involved in theater outside of University Theater," McLaughlin says. "Before Brustein, it used to be that graduate students would direct undergraduate productions. Now it's not common for undergraduates to stage a performance and not one graduate student show...
...recealls his first year at Yale when he offered to "bring the Dramat into the Yale Rep" through a program similar to the program he is now offering Harvard. "I offered them training in the repertory, so they would know what they were doing when they got out on stage. In turn, they would let us identify the talented people...But at the time the Dramat was a proud institution." They turned him down...