Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billing to statehood, emphasizing instead the selection of the first U.S. Senators. "It was a surprise to us to learn how modern Missoula was," says museum director Wes Hardin. "The image of a wild and woolly Montana was not true. There were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman barks off keno numbers over a loudspeaker. Gnarled poker...
...Streetcar Named Desire...
...Proletariat Thunderbolt" in the Group Theater's legendary Waiting for Lefty in 1935. More recently he has been dismissed as an "extinct volcano." Between those two notices he became what no American had ever been before, the dominant directorial force in both theater and film. His productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman defined Broadway's highest aspirations in the 1940s, and On the Waterfront did the same for American movies of the 1950s. In that period he also conceived and co-founded the most influential teaching institution in U.S. theater history, the Actors Studio...
...Leverett House rendition of A Streetcar NamedDesire is just such a production. It takes Tennessee William's brilliant story of a fallen woman and lets it breathe. And since the director and performers don't waste their time developing clever twists or constructing fancy sets, they are able to concentrate on the dramatic subtleties. Most people are familiar with Streetcar's plot turns, and Rosencranz focuses on bringing out the intimate details of the bitter relationship between blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski...
Rosencranz's Streetcar is seristuff. The director and cast make a classic play seem as timely today as when it was first produced...