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...There is this feeling that Paul and Bill are on a different plane from the rest of us," says Moira Ariev '85, a Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC) member who has worked on the last four of Warner's shows. "At first when you hear their names bracketed together, the way they constantly are, you think it's unfair because they're so different. But in another way it's sort of true...
Rauch: The HRDC open book had a note in it the other day asking why we keep doing experimental crap, why don't we ever do Company or Fiddler on the Roof? What they don't realize is that those shows were incredibly innovative once. I don't want to cling to the innovations of the past; why museumize? It's perfectly fine to do, but it's not the same kind of risk-taking...
Neither Warner nor Rauch would suggest that they always agree on theater issues, or even that they agree most of the time. Even when they do agree, or seem to, their work turns out vastly different. Within the close-knit HRDC community, observers and friends agree emphatically on the main difference between the "Paul aesthetic" and the "Bill aesthetic," though they have different ways of putting it into words. Inevitably, there are partisans, as well as a fair number of people who are quite sure they could distinguish a Rauch or a Warner production if they were put down...
...popular play. Since students only get four spots on the Mainstage, the choices should be similar to those made by any good residential theatre. They should reflect what the community wants, and in a diverse community, this means a diverse schedule of productions. It seems that the HRDC Board and Robert Brustein, who, as director of the Loeb Drama Center, has an important vote, have forgotten that good theatre and popular theatre are not necessarily mutually exclusive...
House Drama Soc. Pres; House Comm.; HRDC; House Film Society...