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Robert S. Brustein, the artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre (ART) and instructor of English 163, "Post-Modern Drama," received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for his recent book, "Who Needs Theatre," a collection of writings on theatre that originally appeared in The New Republic...
...statement accepting the award, Brustein announced his intention to donate the $5000 prize money to the ART's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, a two-year program started last year to train young professionals in the fields of acting, theatrical design, directing and dramaturgy...
...Brustein, who also received the Nathan Award in 1962, is the only person ever to win it twice...
...Brustein was dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1966 to 1979, during which time he was also artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, said Jan G. Geidt, director of public relations for the ART. Brustein then moved to Harvard, where he founded the ART. He has written nine books and has been a regular contributor to The New Republic since the late 1950s...
...standard interpretation of The Cherry Orchard is, in the phrase of Critic Robert Brustein, as a "melodramatic conflict between a despoiler and $ his victims." The purported despoiler is Lopakhin, an upstart peasant turned real estate developer who plans to raze the family's mansion and orchard to create a cottage camp for vacationers. In place of this tragic vision of culture under attack, some Soviet productions have hailed Lopakhin as a visionary forerunner of the people's state. Either way, the play becomes didactic, and its undeniably comic moments work at the expense of its humanity...