A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
VINTAGE THEATRE: 7/18 – 9/7
Craig Bond's direction of
Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" is outstanding! The
intimacy of this Vintage Theatre production puts its audience in the hot,
claustrophobic atmosphere of the Stanley Kowalski apartment in New Orleans.
Haley Johnson's portrayal of Blanche DuBois dazzles us with a poignant
fragility that's destined to be ravaged by Kurt Brighton's brutish
brother-in-law Stanley. Kelly Uhlenhopp is vibrant and robust as Blanche's more
reality-based sister, Stella. This is classic Williams that's dark, serious
drama that will rip your heart out!
This show has the kind of
electric onstage chemistry that’s so visceral and powerful in its revelation of
Tennessee Williams’ characters you may have to draw the curtains the following day and just be depressed for a while. I did.
Left to right: Kurt Brighton, Kelly Uhlenhopp and Haley Johnson
The audience is involved to a greater extent than in any
previous production of this show that this reviewer has seen. In fact everyone in
attendance has to cross through the apartment to get to his or her seat. You will
feel the heat as well as see and hear the activity on the street outside
through the slats in Craig Bond’s fragmentary set design. (Daniel Lowenstein has
painted the background mural of the street scene that we observe through the
slats.)
This is a production that is both harrowing and sublime.
Vintage Theatre
presents
“A Streetcar Named
Desire”
The sultry Tennessee
Williams story of sensuality and madness.
July 18 - Sept. 7
Fri/Sat
at 7:30 p.m.; Sun at 2:30 p.m.
$26 ($21 advance); Groups of 6+
$18
303-856-7830 or online at www.vintagetheatre.com
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