Word: stapleton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROSE TATTOO. In a successful revival of Tennessee Williams' tender and funny play, Maureen Stapleton re-creates her role of Serafina Delle Rosa, the widow of a Sicilian truck driver caught between her passion for the memory of her husband and the erotic attractions of another truck driver (Harry Guardino...
Love alone does not govern the play, for it is also a drama about passion as a prime element, a life force that no more obeys the laws of convention than a tidal wave heeds the shore line. The heroine (Maureen Stapleton) is a kind of common woman's Phaedra. Just as the Greek Queen went mad in her passion for her stepson Hippolytus, this Sicilian widow near New Orleans goes mad in her passion for the memory of her dead truck-driver husband. When a young sailor lights the fires of love in the eyes...
...seriocomic man-woman fencing between Stapleton and Guardino is the special delight of the evening. Here are two people ravenously hungry for each other and yet honestly anxious to cherish each other's dignity. In his most direct play, Williams makes a sensuous sonnet out of his central love symbol: "The rose is the heart of the world...
...midfielder on the varsity lacrosse team during the spring season. Stapleton succeeds Dinny Adams as captain of a team which has won five consecutive Ivy and national intercollegiate team championships...
Wally Grant and Harry Van Oudenallen, of pigskin repute, and Oliver Everett made up a second midfield. Munro is trying junior Craig Stapleton with sophomore Jim Kilkowski and Terry Vogt for a third unit...