Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 25, 2009
Closed Mar 15, 2009
Opened Jan 25, 2009
Closed Mar 15, 2009
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Running Time:
1hr. 10min.
1hr. 10min.
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Written and performed by Mark Sam Rosenthal, Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire is directed by Todd Parmley.
Rosenthal, a comedic improviser trained with New York's renowned UprightCitizens Brigade, wades into the swamp of his Louisiana roots with a politically incorrect, gender-bending new solo show, that imagines Tennessee Williams' tragic heroine, Blanche DuBois, has neither aged nor left New Orleans. She was there when Katrina hit; she was sent to the Superdome; she was evacuated to Shreveport and entangled in the heartless bureaucracy of FEMA. She gets involved with drugs, is adopted by an Arizona megachurch, and is 'job-placed' at a Popeye's cash register - having for good reason been permanently barred from teaching young schoolboys. Hers is a refugee story whose politics and pathos you have read but never experienced through the eyes of the desperately deliberately fragile, alcoholic, codependent, sex-addicted Blanche DuBois - America's most broken woman.
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The funniest thing about Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire, currently playing an Off-Broadway engagement at the Soho Playhouse, is its title. Written and performed by Mark Sam Rosenthal, the work debuted at the New York International Fringe Festival last year where it was well received. Unfortunately, its one-joke premise wears thin quickly and the solo show feels far too long at just 70 minutes.
As might be surmised, the work riffs on the character of Blanche DuBois from Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. At the opening of the piece, a man is sifting through the rubble of what we assume is a hurricane devastated home in New Orleans. (Kelly Tighe provides t[...]