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While the verse itself was decidedly third-rate, the warning came through clearly enough. Robert deButts, president of the Yale Dramat, later denied responsibility for this vaguely literary attempt, although he conceded the poem was the handiwork of a Dramat member. He also conceded the verse's sentiment was close...
Brustein views it differently. He claims "amateur theatrics" are "very important in developing an appetite for drama" and as "a preparation for professional theater." Dramat members counter that they don't appreciate serving as the hors d'oeuvres to Brustein's Yale Rep entree...
...Sept. 17, 1965). He likes to dream up puzzles based on Q words, paradoxes, homonyms, palindromes, anagrams, acronyms and acrostics, all of which require something more than a smidgin of esoteric knowledge. Explain this, he commands reading the same backward as forward - it is the short title of a dramat ic monologue, written in the late 1800s by a Portuguese eccentric named Baptista Machado...
Passion & Loathing. Lorca wrote 13 plays, but he was not in any usual sense a playwright. His best works-Yerma, Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba-are really prose poems, and no one of them has the kind of dramat ic power that seals an audience in its seat. Yerma is the story of a young peasant woman who yearns so passionately for a child that she finally murders her sterile husband, crying "But I have killed my son!" Blood Wedding is a study of one of the terrible family feuds that used to be waged generation after generation...
Since the purpose of the festival was a fairly limited one--to bring together theater groups from schools throughout the East and let them see each other's work--it is safe to say that the festival accomplished its aim. Whether it also, as the Yale Dramatic Association hoped, stimulateed college dramatic activity must remain somewhat open to question. It is quite possible, though, that the three or four top-rate shows like Miss Julie, Finnigans Wake, and Deathwatch set standards of acting and production techniques which the other groups will try to emulate. The Dramat seems to have been...