Word: theater
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Also in that year, a highly anticipated production of Hamlet marked the 100th production by the Harvard Dramatic Club (HDC), the most prominent of the 14 theater organizations on campus. Aaron directed the play, which was performed in Sanders Theatre and enjoyed a reported budget of over $4,000. According to Aaron, the production stood out as a highlight of Harvard’s theatrical heyday...
...Sanders Theatre had been cited 50 years before as the finest Shakespearean theater in the country. We took out the seats in the center and built a stage there,” Aaron recalls. “It was remarkably well acted. We were trying to simulate what it was like to see the play in those days when it was first done. We brought the lights up at the beginning to simulate daylight and they never changed during the whole production...
Such experimental techniques were par for the course that year, as the atmosphere surrounding each new project fed students’ creative whims. Grants to the Houses by the Ford Foundation and others funded workshops in theater and visual arts...
...MUCH THEATER...
...popularity of theater on campus grew, concerns arose that there was indeed too much theater at Harvard. Such sentiments prompted The Crimson to call for a “regulation of drama at Harvard” to keep the “drama renaissance more a flowering and less a mushrooming” in a 1957 editorial. The HDC was solicited to set up a master calendar of dramatic productions—much like the one in place today—in order to prevent competition for ticket sales and end the “glut and fast?...