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Undergraduates in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatics Club (HRDC) which also produces plays in the Loeb, yesterday expressed mixed opinions on the idea of paying for scholars to review the ART plays...
...minorities audition for roles in Common Casting, a joint effort by directors to audition actors for about 35 plays each semester, said HRDC president Nestor M. Davidson '90. In addition, directors may be reluctant to cast some plays "untraditionally...
This week, HRDC members put up posters around campus to alert minorities to Common Casting. Later this month, during Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism (AWARE) week, they will hold a workshop addressing the problem of making "racial choices in casting," Davidson said...
...addition, HRDC will produce two plays--Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera and a play adapted from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold-- both designed to showcase minority actors...
...when making casting decisions for plays by such authors as Shakespeare, directors must balance historical accuracy and theatrical diversity, the HRDC president said. "For example, when a Black student is cast in a nineteenth-century Chekhov role, that is an anomaly. You can choose to ignore the anomalies or make a statement with them...