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New Orleans masterpiece comes to Liverpool
Date:
02 February 2012
The smouldering world of New Orleans is coming to Liverpool with the Playhouse production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Tennessee Williams’s tender yet powerful Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 play has long been considered a landmark of 20th century theatre.
Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz directs Amanda Drew as Blanche Dubois, Sam Troughton as Stanley Kowalski and Leanne Best as Stella Kowalski, in the first Tennessee Williams produced by the venue in over thirty years.
A Streetcar Named Desire is at the Liverpool Playhouse from Friday 17th February to Saturday 10th March.
Desperate times call for desperate measures as faded southern belle, Blanche Dubois escapes to the heat and the heart of New Orleans.
But a dark past is hard to leave behind and when confronted for the first time with her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, the present soon turns ugly.
As the sweat and the dirt of the city soak into her fine lace and the blood pulses in her ears to the beat of red hot jazz, Blanche retreats into a world she once knew. A world that had long ago slipped away from her grasp, just as her life has now.
After highly acclaimed productions of classics Macbeth and Tartuffe this year, Gemma Bodinetz returns to 20th century American drama following the critical success and popularity of All My Sons (2006) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2005).
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