A Streetcar Named Desire

Synopsis

Blanche DuBois arrives in New Orleans to visit her sister Stella. In the seedy apartment she shares with her brutish husband Stanley, the truth about Blanche unfolds. The delicate, hopeless, neurotic Blanche meets her match in Stanley. Despite her southern belle charm and her airs and graces Stanley can see right through her.

Our Review:

23 February 2012

Summertime, but the living is not easy when Blanche Dubois descends on sister Stella, living in a tiny New Orleans apartment with husband Stanley. It is indeed stiflingly claustrophobic -and almost overwhelmingly noisy at times; the music virtually drowned out one telling speech. The striking, precariously balanced set, swings round from exterior fire escape to the interior, with several scenes in the bedroom at the back, and though audible, it’s distracting when you have to peer past the people in the living room.

The dialogue is mostly wonderful (‘Sometimes - there's God - so quickly’), if astonishingly spiteful where Stanley is concerned; like Blanche, he has few redeeming qualities. Sam Troughton vividly takes sheer delight in being pugnacious; even his adoration of the long suffering yet graceful Stella does not prevent brutality. Leanne Best at times is unfortunately hesitant, as if more concerned with the accent than the acting, while Matthew Flynn&#...

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LYNNE - 10 March 2012:

Loved this production..gripping and thought provoking.....

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