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...Richard III," which runs today through May 8, is the third Visiting Director's Project (VDP)--a Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) program that hosts a professional director at Harvard every other spring. Richard's cast and crew rave about the program because it has allowed them to receive first-class theater instruction normally lacking in a Harvard education...
Packer invited some of her assistants at Shakespeare & Co. to help with the VDP production. Professional directors, voice coaches and fight choreographers have helped train the cast, according to Joe C. Gfaller '01, who plays the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Ely and the Duke of Norfolk...
...intense learning experience these actors have had with the VDP highlights what they say is a gap in Harvard's curriculum...
With no theater department or concentration, Harvard undergraduates mainly rely on each other for guidance. The VDP is one of the few opportunities for Harvard undergraduates to work with more experienced theatrical veterans or professionals...
...There are not enough chances for undergraduates to actually do a show with professionals," says VDP Coordinator Jessica K. Jackson '99, who has been working on the 1999 project for two years...