A Streetcar Named Desire
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 23, 2009
Closed Oct 3, 2009
Opened Jul 23, 2009
Closed Oct 3, 2009
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Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois unexpectedly appears at her sister's home in the stifling world of downtown New Orleans. With delusions of grandeur, Blanche stands in stark contrast to her new surroundings and her brother-in-law Stanley. His determination to reveal her secrets lead her to withdraw ever further away from reality, into a world of illusions. Rob Ashford directs.
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Despite a striking and intelligent central performance from Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz as the broken Blanche DuBois, the Donmar Warehouse's production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire stubbornly remains just shy of the sum of its not inconsiderable parts.
Weisz's Blanche gives the production its heart, yet she resists the urge to utterly dominate proceedings with her relatively understated and generous portrayal. Her Blanche is a delicate creature, exuding elegance even as she floats round the Kowalskis' two-room apartment swigging bourbon on the sly. Clad for much of the time in a crimson bathrobe with long looped sleeves, her slender white hands flutter in front of h[...]