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Article: What does it take to keep 'Streetcar' on track? Sheila Daniels faces down the play's challenges in a volatile debut at Intiman.(Streetcar Named Desire)
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- American Theatre
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- October 1, 2008
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At the corner of Big Easy and Our Lady of Method Acting, a hunky young man in a sweat-stained T-shirt drops to his knees and wails for the wife he has just wronged.
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The sound of "Stellllaaaaa!" from the quintessential Tennessee Williams drama, A Streetcar Named Desire, is a primal scream heard round the world. It is a cri de coeur that has echoed across six decades, in countless stage productions, in operas and dance pieces and movies, in sequels and lampoons, in memorable deconstructions--even in a musical episode of "The Simpsons" ("A Streetcar Named Marge").
Just as memorable and axiomatic is the plaintive phrase "I ...