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...HDC prospectus says that the Summer Players "feel that with Aristophanes, to be irreverent is to be faithful." This production is not faithful to Aristophanes' irreverence. For Aristophanes, while he was an expert practitioner of the calculated gross-out, also dared to scream insults in the face of public opinion. And that, as he says himself in this play, is what placed him head and shoulders over his fellow comedy-writers...
Before he delivered the Spencer Lecture last February, that great and good man of the theatre, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, noticed a casting poster for the HDC production of The Plebeians Rehearse The Uprising. Turning to the Associate Professor of English who was shepherding him around the Loeb, Sir Tyrone is said to have asked, "Isn't that the new thriller about de Sade and a lot of French lunatics?" Told that Plebeians was a recent play by Gunter Grass about Brecht, he shook his head, informed sources report, and muttered, "Jumping Jesus. Well, it's good to know...
Shuman's suggested amendments are designed to strengthen the link between the five-man executive committee and the rest of the HDC members. Several members called them innocuous yesterday, and they quickly voted to mail ballots...
...other decisions came only after protracted discussion. For the third time in a row, an HDC meeting began without a quorum of members present, so voting on the constitutional amendments was stymied until enough members arrived to make a quorum...
...today's meeting, the HDC will vote only on the amendments proposed last week. The proposal to change the executive committee selection process will be offered formally this afternoon, but as the HDC constitution requires, it will not be put to a vote until next week...