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Graduate courses offer the other link between the two groups. Undergraudates may take courses in all programs in the graduate school except acting and directing. The programs open to them include the areas of technical design, set design, dramaturgy, dramatic criticism and playwriting. Brustein explains that undergraudates are excluded from the acting and directing classes because the intensive level of instruction and the time commitment involved makes it practical only for full-time graduate students. Graduate actors and directors spend 25 hours a week in class practicing. "Undergraduates would feel out of it. The intense professionalization we have here...
...campaign of the Dramat and in part to the cooperation of the associate dean--Jonathan Miller this year and his predecessor, Howard Stein--as well as Dramat supporters within the graduate school. "There were a lot of people in the drama school who worked hard for us," Bailey says. "Brustein was not one of them...
...dean's policy" is an almost unanimous respect for his genius as a director, a drama critic and leader of a creative movement in American theater. John J.G. Rubin, a second-year acting student at the drama school, organized a student search committee to consider possible replacements for Brustein when he leaves next year. "We went through lists of likely candidates. And, honestly, we found very few people who had that same drive and desire to transform American theater. If there is one thing I'll regret losing when he leaves next year, it's going to be that vision...
Bailey agrees that Brustein is a man with a vision. But that vision often blinds Brustein to--or offers him an excuse to ignore--the little realities of the day-to-day theater world. Those realities include more democratic scheduling, realistic rehearsal and stage time and, beyond that, simple fair play with the bare minimum of backroom politics...
...resolution: Bailey recommends Harvard students insist an agreement be hammered out in writing, before Brustein takes over the Loeb. Included in the agreement should be a guarantee that Brustein will sit down in person one or two times a year with the HRDC to negotiate. An advisory board, such as the present faculty standing committee on drama, should be retained as a body to which they can appeal. The Dramat has a similar advisory board made up of faculty and administrators. Yale President Giamatti sat on the board at one time. The board could not overrule the drama school administration...