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Show 'Unique' Streetcar at Pioneer run By JULIE RAYL Chronicle Staff Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play "A ctrpet Desire" opened Thursday night before a capacYtv rrn h pioneer Memorial Theater. capacity crowd at the Coming in the middle of a season of light musicals thP ni welcome break. "Streetcar," reputed to be William,' h I '3 portravs the forces the violence and insensibility whTch plat un ' the sensitive individual in our society and renders him c ude nd helpless. It is a kind of poetic tragedy as comolirTf .u psychology of the characters themselves comPllcated as the Robert Hyde Wilson's rendition of "Streetcar" is, to say the Pf unique. With WNIiams' stated theme "...the apes shall inheri e earth..." as the basis of his interpretation, Wilson has masterf. X created a protagonist m Blanche Du Bois who is the epitomy of the sensitive individual destroyed by the crude force of society At the same time he creates an antagonist in Stanley Kowalski who is the symbol of coarse insensitivity. e In her characterization of Blanche, Judith Olauson is excellent With penetrating force and superb technical ability, Mill Olauson snatches up her audience and carries it with her to the end of the play Never does her characterization weaken as she holds the audience's complete attention through many long and different soliloquies. But in her attempt to present Blanche as the proud but delicate woman who is desperately trying to maintain a dying way of life, Miss Blanche into SrThet f "Ua,iti" that de JnensLewomanndhaTea:anCe' MiS$ 'aUSOn'S Blanche is "ot the . own iLgs Buth S. theaPened bY circumstances and her and Z fr She 'S regal- With her sophisticated manner been edud8tn t 65 not kpreSent enou8h of the Blanche who has hotel. Pmg the comPany of strangers in a common H1amiltonheAMi0radiLPeu0rnanCe f StanleV Kowali is Richard Sacter who m'" Huamilt0n reaches the completely masculine wife Ste h fr ep?lanuhe f?r What She is and to protect his Tel: fh! anChe 5 domination. But for the most part he his virility qU'et frCefulnesS of a man who iS self-assured of K mtleTr 35 S,te"a Kra,Ski turns in 3 sensitive Performance as Robin J Wh h3S fUnd a haven in Stany. And Bruce buddy 5 3 persuasive Performance as Mitch, Stanley's The sets used for the play are identical to the sets designed by joe Mie zmer forthe original Broadway production. Constructed mainly Thf,KP f T lensurrealtic feeling to a very real dilemma I he use of color and light is excellent. lid fhp Werefmade Pib'e by a grant by Mr. and Mrs. O.C. Tanner hirtl cnstruction of the sets was supervised by Mr. Mielziner himself who visited the University in lanuarv |