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While most people associate the "Ex" with innovative--and often oblique--performances of radical modern plays, members of the Harvard Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC) are hoping to revamp that image by broadening the scope of the theater's presentations. Since, as Gutwillig says, the space is "not inherently dramatic," organizers have sought to fill the space with a variety of artistic disciplines during the preseason and postseason, while reserving the regular season for more traditional offerings...
While playwrights like Shepherd and Chekhov--who usually comprise standard fare at the Ex--will continue to predominate during the regular season, the HRDC has made numerous efforts to open up the theater to new group especially those that are not specifically oriented to drama. David G. Victor '87, president of the HRDC, explained that this season's outreach effort is "a way of extending the opportunities we can provide--including a space and some financial help--to people who aren't the traditional stock of the HRDC...
...HRDC members are hoping that their postseason event will be similarly successful. Although University regulations prevent the mounting of a new production during reading period, the production of "Charlotte: Life or Theater?" will begin during classes and continue through May reading period. According to Gutwillig, "Charlotte" will be an original theater piece based on an autobiographical book of 769 paintings, which German holocaust victim Charlotte Salomon used to record her life...
...There's no denying there's a certain look to Paul's shows, a sort of homosexual, mylar, glitzy look," says Peter Howard '84, a former HRDC board member who has acted for both directors. "It's the old paradox of trying on the one hand to attract an audience, to make them want to come back to the theater, and at the same time to threaten them and change their lives. Paul tends to be more confrontational...
...immediate future, at least, both Warner and Rauch's plans will keep them on surprisingly familiar turf--opposite sides of Brattle Street Rauch will spend the summer directing in the Agassiz. Warner is running the HRDC summer theater--a return of sorts to the group which had not accepted a show of his since Agamemnon, and whose internal politics he says helped spur him to work outside Harvard after sophomore year...