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...their second offering of the season, the Group 20 Players have come up with an unusual production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prizewinning play A Streetcar Named Desire. Feeling that twelve years have considerably changed the values of the play, Ellis Rabb, in a directorial note in the program, explains that he believes Streetcar to be a play about man's "procreative power" as represented by Stanley Kowalski rather than Blanche DuBois' "vulnerability." Unfortunately, this thesis does not play successfully throughout, and the result is an energetic but uneven production. "The total horror of Blanche's affliction...
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-spring. Surely this sort of insensitive good-naturedness is not the emerging 20th-century...
Group 20 Players (Wellesley): June 23-July 4, Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"; July 7-18, Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"; July 21-August 1, Shaw's "Man and Superman"; August 4-15, Barrie's "Peter Pan"; August 18-29, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" and Moliere's "The Follies of Scapin...
...write new incidental music for a Broadway production of Sean O'Casey's Within the Gates. That was in 1934, and since then Composer-Conductor Engel has had a hand in such diverse Broadway shows as Maurice Evans' Hamlet, The Trojan Women, A Streetcar Named Desire (for which he wrote incidental music), The Consul and Li'l Abner (for which he served as pit conductor...
...well he at least walked in the sunlight. He didn't complain when his bus was late, when it poured on his way to Longfellow, or when he was trapped in Filene's revolving door. And the time his date's heel caught and broke in a streetcar track he cheerfully carried her home. He enjoyed House food, loved breakfasts at 8:15, and even liked the Lowell House bells. He read Thurber, collected Charles Addams, and was content to sit alone at night listening to Dylan Thomas recordings and drinking black coffee from his electric percolator. Or would have...