A Streetcar Named Desire
From: Thursday, 23rd July 2009
To: Saturday, 3 October 2009
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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.
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Michael Coveney - 29 July 2009
“Her delicate beauty”, said Tennessee Williams of Blanche DuBois, “must avoid a strong light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth.”
Rachel Weisz captures that part of Blanche to perfection in the early scenes of Rob Ashford’s atmospheric production, where the sounds of New Orleans impinge at all times on the action and a ghostly choreography recreates both the sexual playing away of Blanche’s homosexual toy boy husband and Blanche’s brutal back entry rape by Stanley Kowalski.
Stanley, the Marlon Brando role, is the most difficult part, and never fully realized on the British stage. He’s a brutish offspring of Polish immigrants, not a time-warped reject from Chariots of Fire which is what Elliot Cowan seems to be playing in his chaotically accented performance.
The Polish, says Blanche, are something like the Irish only not so highbrow. But Ashford’s production makes more of the cinematic flue...
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Joesmith - 3 October 2009:
Fantastic production (for a choreographer) but Rachal Weisz, good at the start, rather missed the mark and lost focus. Also a slightly miscast Stanley who bravely tried to put 'Polack' into his accent but didn't quite pull off the depth of the character. Both were eclipsed by the Stella of Ruth Wilson who really soared and a very subtle performance from Barnaby Kay. Nice to see Daniela Nardini on stage again but will someone please give her a better part....
Cast
Rachel Weisz (Blanche DuBois)
Jack Ashton (Young Collector)
Elliot Cowan (Stanley)
Barnaby Kay (Mitch)
Ruth Wilson (Stella)
Daniela Nardini (Eunice Hubbel)
Charles Daish (Doctor)
Judy Hepburn (Matron)
Gary Milner (Steve Hubbel)
Luke Rutherford (Pablo)
Creative
Tennessee William (Author)
Simmons & Simmons (Corporate Sponsor)
Donmar Warehouse (Producer)
Rob Ashford (Director)
Christopher Oram (Design)
Neil Austin (Lighting)
Adam Cork (Music)
Adam Cork (Sound)
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