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...dramatists at Harvard are enthused by the possibility of a theater concentration. One major conflict that has arisen in the discussion of a dramatic theater concentration is the constraints that might be placed on extracurricular theater groups, such as the Harvard Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC), whose seasons are already packed without having to compete with the performed theses of concentrators...
...Certainly, there’s a lot of excitement about anything that might expand the range of courses available that focus on theater or performance,” says outgoing HRDC President Bobby A. Hodgson ’05. “Our current Dramatic Arts course offerings are fantastic and obviously, the idea of adding even more courses appeals to a lot of people. At the same time, the current system seems great to many in the HRDC. Would anything be lost or altered from what is currently available...
Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08, who is actively involved in HRDC, entered Harvard with no plans to concentrate in theater. In an e-mail, he describes the troubles of a friend at another university who “is disgusted by the hoops he must jump through to do theater at that university because so much preference is given to theater majors...
...think this all started with, ‘Oh, we’re doing so much work, let’s get credit for it,’” Marcus Stern, the HRDC faculty advisor remarked at the meeting. And that’s true. That’s because when Biology concentrators spend fifteen or twenty hours a week doing research in a lab, they can get course credit. But when I do a show, not only do I not get course credit for my fifteen to twenty hours a week of rehearsal; I get met with...
...theater and performance) concentrators. By this June, a dozen students will have graduated with Special Concentrations in some form of performance studies within the last five years. But student interest in making and learning about theater has never been the question. As Austin Guest put it at the HRDC meeting, “This whole thing really hinges on the theory versus praxis issue...