A Streetcar Named Desire

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Young Vic Production 2013
Stanley scavenges through Blanche's skirt in Scene 10 like a dog, Context of Southern America lost through modern interpretation, apartment without walls
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Susannah Clapp
Doesn't totally like Blanche, bedazzled by the brutal Stanley and feels the audience are eavesdropping on the characters
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Michael Billington
Blanche plays a cracked Southern Belle and Stanley a coarse brute as the play descends into melodrama.
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Benedict Andrews
Play is between real and illusion, Stanley represents the animal presence and Blanche the more illusionary presence
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Donmar Warehouse production 2009
Husband reappears often and even as the Young Man, over-externalises Blanche's dreams memories
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Paul Taylor
Blanche is much less of a woman than a sexual butterfly with severely clipped wings
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Susannah Clapp
Blanche has changed them all with her turbulence - undone by her departure
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Rachel Weisz
No good guy, everyone is human and everyone is flawed. Blanche has a great level of complexity... vulnerable,pathetic,a monster,nasty,tender and kind
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Doesn't totally like Blanche, bedazzled by the brutal Stanley and feels the audience are eavesdropping on the characters

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Susannah Clapp

Card 3

Front

Blanche plays a cracked Southern Belle and Stanley a coarse brute as the play descends into melodrama.

Back

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Card 4

Front

Play is between real and illusion, Stanley represents the animal presence and Blanche the more illusionary presence

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Husband reappears often and even as the Young Man, over-externalises Blanche's dreams memories

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