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...most supportive environments,” Wright said after the reading of her play. “We’re incredibly proud of our playwrights and really excited by this,” said Evans. “We hope that in future years, more student-written plays will get onstage among all the famous dead people’s plays...
...first time in 15 years, a student-written play is premiering on the Loeb Mainstage. This honor has opened artistic possibilities for the producers, actors, and all others involved. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s “The Space Between” will use the space to produce an experimental play combining theatrics, dance, and, less likely, physics. Catherine “Calla” Videt ’09, playwright and director of the play, who could not be reached for comment, wrote the work as the second half of her thesis for her Special Concentration...
...other theater organizations on campus] can run theater and shape theater based on student desires,” says HRDC president Allison B. Kline ’09. Originally known as the Harvard Dramatic Club, HRDC was founded in 1908 with a mission to create a permanent standing theater community at Harvard. It distinguished itself from other universities’ dramatic clubs through its commitment to both student actors and student playwrights. Its first production, entitled “The Promised Land,” was written by A. Davis, class of 1907, and encouraged the vision...
...defiance of traditional theater aesthetics, “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas” took a lot of risks—which on balance was quite admirable, especially for a student-written work. But the play’s spectacle of amusing incoherence was certainly not for everyone. At times the characters even seemed to acknowledge its radical sense of humor, explaining, “Anyone can say anything. You should...
...you’ll get what I wrote.” By drawing on different genres, texts, and ideas, and by showcasing five disparate works, the Ensemble hopes to attract those prospective students who might be interested in creative work at Harvard. Both Lim and Wang say that the Ensemble is trying to restart a kind of lapsed tradition of student-written contemporary music at Harvard. “I think there are a lot of people on campus who enjoy this stuff,” says Wang. For this reason, the operas can encompass “pretty much...