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Student members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) as well as the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) orginally opposed the list of ten courses submitted this fall by Robert S. Brustein, future director of the Loeb and director of the American Repertory Theater...
When Hail hung up he called his senior tutor and then Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, who met with Hail before convening an informal meeting with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) and Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education. The administrators sat down with HRDC officials in order to clarify the group's position on casting and auditions in mainstage productions. Although the administrators condemned Hail's mistreatment, they shied away from setting down explicit guidelines for future auditions; likewise, the students sympathized with Hail, but hesitated to impose constraints on Garry...
Ticket sales help balance the Loeb budget, but according to HRDC president Elizabeth Maguire, plays are not chosen for ther profitability, but for their artistic merit and adaptability to a student cast. A selection committee comprised of four HRDC members and two members of the Faculty Committee on Theater chooses the plays...
...HRDC's Maguire, on the other hand, says, "Turning people away without giving them a chance is inexcusable, especially since some of the most dynamic people acting at Harvard now don't fall into any one theatrical complexion." She added that a play like "The Royal Family" is a dated vehicle, and needs deletion of offensive phrases like "shuffling two-bit." Marcela Davison, producer of "The Royal Family," says that she "never intended to have closed casting. That's a tenet of every show: I know that's a policy of HRDC...
Some believe the present no-credit policy has its advantages. In the spring of '78, HRDC published a report on the arts at Harvard which concluded that the abscence of a drama department eliminated the kind of exclusiveness that often accompanies drama departments at other schools. "Harvard's drama is surprisingly non-elitist, says Bloomfield, "anybody who wants to work on a play...