Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Towards the end of Act I Blanche says to her sister, "I want to rest! I want to breathe quietly again! But this line is delivered as though by a tired prostitute, and not by a woman with a sincere desire to escape from her past and begin life anew...
Robert Blackburn as Stanley is strong, masculine, and sincere, but there is little that is animal about him. He is no survivor of the Stone Age. Mr. Rabb would have us believe that Streetcar is "a study in survival." All that survives from this struggle is Stanley and his off...
The other actors, including a wisely anonymous George Spelvin, seemed to have lacked a director. And it was rather disconcerting that a pair of shoes which was taken off in January (act I) had not been removed from the stage by June (Act III).
The Pavlov Route. Man's fate, as Condon sees it, is to work hard, sacrifice much, lead an intelligent, just and fruitful life, and then show up at the Last Judgment minus his pants. Sooner or "later, like the blind beggars toppling after their blind leader in Bruegel'...
In the end. the effort at global satire proves too strenuous. In spite of a climax as apocalyptic as any since King Kong was shot off the top of the Empire State Building, Author Condon falters as he battles both cold-war antagonists simultaneously. But in his comic set pieces...