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...idea for Meat, which Lehrman claims “means whatever you want it to mean,” first occurred to the senior last May. As the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC)’s Experimental Theatre Coordinator, Lehrman is responsible for coordinating the organization’s show schedule. She thought of the idea for a playwright’s festival when she began thinking about how she could fill in potential holes in the schedule, like “at the very beginning of the year when people are wary of putting on a really complicated...
After brainstrorming the idea, Lehrman first e-mailed the HRDC general list to gauge interest, and afterwards she asked for writing samples from those interested. From that subsequent pool of writers, Lehrman then assembled the 13 playwrights that would eventually form the festival. Interestingly, she notes, “Only a few submitted plays for their sample; I got nonfiction, fiction and poetry too.” From that point on, the festival became much easier to organize. With its lack of complicated settings and sparse required tech work, the other important things the producers had to worry about were...
Dance needs an overarching organization, like theater’s Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Society (HRDC), to coordinate its efforts and connect its artists. The HRDC assigns theater spaces and binds actors, directors, tech crews and producers together in a single network. In the dance community, however, there is little interaction between Harvard’s many companies, and dancers generally stick to one group or another. Instead of one dance organization asking for space, 18 student groups must approach the administration individually. With an umbrella group, Harvard’s dancers and choreographers would speak with one voice...
...report in May 2000 by a group of students requested that the American Repertory Theater (ART) grant dance a yearly slot on the mainstage in addition to the four currently accorded to the HRDC...
...only fair way for the dance community to have regular access to the Loeb is to have alternative spaces for either the HRDC or the ART to work,” he writes. “The renovation of the Hasty Pudding Theatre might provide for an opportunity in this area...