Word: eliot
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...tell you why it’s impossible to stage a great production of A Streetcar Named Desire. It’s nothing against the Eliot Drama Society’s perfectly fine stab at the show, which ran last weekend. But just as there’s no artistic reason to mount a revival of The King and I now that Yul Brynner’s dead, there’s no reason to put on Streetcar as long as the DVD of its film remains in stock at Blockbuster...
...actors not long out of high school and cast them as sensual hulks and aging pedophiles—is an even trickier proposition; a few false steps and the production could start to feel like Max Fischer’s Serpico. But having all these bars against them, the Eliot crew has nevertheless managed to pull off a mostly genuine and affecting production of Tennessee Williams’ play...
Despite the program-note protestations of director David V. Kimel ’05 that the staging “aims at returning to the original text,” the Eliot interpretation of Streetcar is not entirely orthodox; almost every time that the production strays from convention, however, it’s a good thing. The play’s music, for example—that batch of motifs that Williams fetishized in his stage directions—is nearly nonexistent, but to no great detriment. And the production’s Stanley Kowalski (Simon N. Nicholas...
McNitt explained the planned later grill hours—9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.—are an experiment to see if demand exists among first-year students for a late-night grill similar to those in Cabot, Dunster, Eliot, Kirkland and Quincy Houses...
Tennessee Williams’ classic play is coming to the west end of Eliot’s now cramped dining hall, under the direction of David Kimel. The production also marks the revival of the Eliot House Drama Society. Tickets $5 with Harvard I.D. (HBO). Through Saturday, April 17. Eliot House Dining Hall...