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Those who produce work that really is too risky commercially for House Drama Societies have had to scurry between the Adams House Swimming Pool and the Mather House basement in search of space. And they aren't the only victims of the HRDC's Ex strategy. Harvard's theater-going public is now forced to read every kiosk and house bulletin board to find the experimental works that have been ousted from...
...HRDC President Andrew Watson '88 acknowledges that the Experimental Theater should use its high-profile and resources--each show gets $250 per weekend plus free publicity, lights, props and costumes--to encourage theater that wouldn't be viable here without subsidy. However, a partial list of the past year's productions raises some doubts that the Ex is doing this. Recent Ex shows include: The Dining Room, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fool For Love, The Diary of Anne Frank, March of the Falsettos, A Streetcar Named Desire and, of course, King Lear...
...thing, each year the HRDC membership elects a new coordinator, who makes all the final decisions on shows for the Ex. Thus, the selection criteria vary wildly from year to year, confusing applicants who must try to make their project consistent with whatever philosophy happens to be in vogue...
...faculty committee in dramatic arts, which must approve the HRDC's choices for the mainstage, agreed. Says noted playwright and committee member Professor William Alfred, "They told me why they thought the play would be the most viable in terms of not only the quality of the director and script but also how it fit in with other things on the program...
...allows mainstage producers to use its lighting facilities and its machine shop. Members of the ART staff helped the Ui group with accents, publicity and costuming. And to help pay for additional costs, the HRDC allots mainstage producers $1500, while budgets for house productions usually run around $500 or less. Not only that, "we are under no compunction to pay [the money] back," as there is with house productions, Noonan says. And Cibula added, "Most houses do not let us do big ornate productions which make no money...