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This past weekend, Harvard’s choicest selections of meat couldn’t be found in any dining hall or final club. Rather, that honor went to the Adams House Poole Theater, the venue of choice for Meat: A Playwright??s Festival. The brainchild of co-producer and participant Maggie Lehrman ’03, the festival showcased diverse works of comedy and drama from 10 up-and-coming undergraduate playwrights...
...whatever you want it to mean,” first occurred to the senior last May. As the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC)’s Experimental Theatre Coordinator, Lehrman is responsible for coordinating the organization’s show schedule. She thought of the idea for a playwright??s festival when she began thinking about how she could fill in potential holes in the schedule, like “at the very beginning of the year when people are wary of putting on a really complicated, technically involved play because of limited rehearsal time...
Productions of Assassins, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s controversial musical about historic gunshots, have historically shot themselves in the foot by opening—or trying to—in politically volatile times. The show’s premiere at Playwright??s Horizons was crippled by the climate of the Gulf War, and a recent Roundabout Theatre Company revival was canceled in the wake of the events of Sept. 11. In a Roundabout press release on Sept. 13, the authors announced, “Assassins is a show which asks audiences to think critically about...
...York during the production of “Nursery.” She and three other playwrights (all 18 or younger at the time) were selected from a pool of 1,500 entries to have their one-act plays performed off-Broadway at the Young Playwright??s Festival...