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Repertor
By Dale Smoak
Gamecock Staff Writer
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Summer Repertory Theatre is offering
some excellent choices for summer
theatregoers. Though it is a professional
company, and thus has people from all over
the country, there are several USC
professors and students involved.
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William's A Streetcar Named Desire is any
indication of the quality of the company,
there is much to look forward to the rest of
the summer. Williams' play portrays a
woman, unable to deal with the reality of
her life, who visits her younger sister and
her husband.
The older sister, Blanche DuBois, feels
that Stella, her younger sister, is in a bad
situation being married to Stanley
Kowalski, a man with a different
background than the sisters. The play
covers the summer that Blanche stayed
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caused by Blanche's presence and her
struggle with reality.
Ruth Ann Phimister did a marvelous job
as Blanche. She projected a highbrow
manner demanded of the character.
Blanche is easy to dislike, and through the
first half-hour of the play, I found myself
disliking Blanche intensely. I realized then
what a wonderful job Phimister was doing
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As Stanley, Brad J. Sergi successfully
portrayed a manner of street-wise, selfassured
masculinity. The emotions of his
character range from tenderness to rage,
and Sergi's performance encompassed the
range called for well.
Rhonda Aldrich's Stella was also
pleasing. Stella is caught in the middle
between Stanley and Blanche. Aldrich
skillfully played a character sympathetic to
both parties.
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By David Baker
Entortalnm?nt Editor
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I review this week in order to make a few I
about each of the films I will not be ab
entire column to in the future.
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put off seeing any of the summer's filr
read my opinions of them, he needn't wai
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beautifully photographed "prequel" to
and the Sundance Kid isn't nearly so bac
office grosses might indicate. Delibera
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Of the supporting actors, all of whom were
very good, Candace Compton as Eunice, the
Kowalskis' upstairs neighbor, was a
standout, bhe had just the right manner ot
southernness and i$otherliness.
Th<c set design was very good. It was that
of a two room apartment, built in enough
detail to be realistic and spare enough to not
block anyone's view. Attention was obviously
paid to stage props, which were good
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The USC Summer Repertory Theatre
performs Wednesday through Saturday
nights at 8 and Sunday afternoons at 3 in
Longstreet Theatre. Admission is $1.50 for
students and $3.50 for the general public.
The season continues through Aug. 5.
Moliere's Tartuffe will run through this
bunaay. ine plays win oe periormea in
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repertory for the next four weeks, so it will
still be Dossible to a nlav vnn havp
missed. In addition to Tartuffe and
Streetcar, the company also performs
Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday. Also, July
25-28 and Aug. 1-4, the company will perform
a children's show, Mother Goose on the
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iving us all too many of this season ? an
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'bra Streisand movie, but there's simply
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chews up almost every scene she appears in
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>ks like he radioed in his instructions while
>rway. If it weren't for the theme song (sung
i), Main Event would be a total wash-out.
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that is certain to send even the most gullible
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