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...create a special concentration: Dramatic Literature and Practice. She describes the concentration as over 50 percent English Literature, with supplementary courses in acting, stage design, dramaturgy, and other performance-based classes. She even enrolled in a one-on-one tutorial about Stephen Sondheim with her advisor, Professor Robert Scanlan. “What other Dramatic Arts courses are there?” says Bendorf. “I’ve taken them...
...Code Switch 7, a brand-new theater company founded by the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) seven African American students: Renee-Marie Brewster, Anthony Gaskins, Kelley Green, Faith O. Imafedon ’07, Richard Scott, Charles Settles, and Lindsay Strachan. Under the mentorship of Professor Robert Scanlan, they will be performing their debut show at 2pm on Sunday, February 7 at Club Oberon...
...first observation was that there was not a thing in common among these people apart from race,” remarks Scanlan on first meeting the students, Yet one of the main missions of Code Switch 7 is to evoke the individual—and highly personal—matter of dealing with racial issues. The common experience of being black at the A.R.T. provided them with an initial starting point. “It’s really isolating, because our class is very homogenous and we’re such a minority,” Brewster says...
...case of being an African American, it’s like, how black am I allowed to be?” Scanlan asks. This is an issue that black actors constantly have to confront—the Sevens and Scanlan even joked about having a Black-O-Meter in their pieces that would register how ‘black’ a given piece is on a scale...
...rise of Code Switch 7 is an experiment—not just in terms of their message, but also in terms of trying to get a budding theater company off the ground. Scanlan is outlining an infrastructure in which independent student theater companies with developed projects could begin to take off, benefiting from the expertise of the many producers and technicians running Harvard’s performance venues. Scanlan views the new Club Oberon space as one with great potential for Harvard theater troupes. He and the Sevens hope that their company will continue to write, invent, and perform long...