Show Description
Tennesse Williams’ A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is a true American classic.
Kari Margolis’ visually lush, musically evocative, multimedia interpretation honors all William’s powerful text, and explores new ways for audiences to experience a story they know as if seeing it for the very first time.
Like the fractured reflection of a broken mirror, we are many things, and life becomes complicated when our illusory selves are revealed.
The tight quarters of the Kowalski’s steamy apartment with its bare light bulbs and lack of privacy becomes the battlefield on which each of the characters fight to hold onto their own version of reality.
While it is Blanche who publicly descends into madness, the sparring matches, manipulations, and deep-seated needs of Stanley, Stella and Mitch, reveal how they, and ultimately all of us, walk a fine line between fantasy and reality.
It’s a precarious high wire act, and when jostled, the fall is far and hard.
Multiple casting of Blanche and Stanley brings to life aspects of both characters’ true inner and outer selves.
