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She’s even more sensitive than Mitch (Richard J. Powell ’05), Blanche’s momentary beau. Mitch is often cast as the mushball of Streetcar, but he takes on a darker cast in this production. Though Mitch is inherently a fumbling misfit, Powell takes him even further and gives him a half-lobotomized air; this is the first Streetcar I’ve seen where Mitch, not Stanley, is the one with the taciturn attitude and the undercurrent of animalism. In the text, Mitch and Blanche mesh well because they can share their personal...
...tell you why it’s impossible to stage a great production of A Streetcar Named Desire. It’s nothing against the Eliot Drama Society’s perfectly fine stab at the show, which ran last weekend. But just as there’s no artistic reason to mount a revival of The King and I now that Yul Brynner’s dead, there’s no reason to put on Streetcar as long as the DVD of its film remains in stock at Blockbuster...
...cultural touchstone, but you’re never thinking about the line’s context—you’re thinking about Marlon Brando screaming with his head sandwiched between his elbows. And if you don’t think of that when you think of Streetcar, you probably think of Brando trudging around in an undershirt, or Kim Hunter absently slinking down a flight of stairs, or Vivien Leigh flinching away from a naked light bulb. And for a college, of all places, to tackle Streetcar—to take actors not long out of high school...
Despite the program-note protestations of director David V. Kimel ’05 that the staging “aims at returning to the original text,” the Eliot interpretation of Streetcar is not entirely orthodox; almost every time that the production strays from convention, however, it’s a good thing. The play’s music, for example—that batch of motifs that Williams fetishized in his stage directions—is nearly nonexistent, but to no great detriment. And the production’s Stanley Kowalski (Simon N. Nicholas...
THEATER | A Streetcar Named Desire