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Article: Theatre reviews: A Streetcar Named Desire and The Daughter in Law: Home truths
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- The Scotsman
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- February 20, 2002
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A Streetcar Named Desire **** Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
The Daughter in Law *** Perth Theatre
EVER since its first performance in New York in 1947, Tennessee
Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire has been recognised as a great
tragedy about the rejection and abuse of those who fail to fit
conventional sexual and social patterns.
Set in sweltering New Orleans in a long hot 1940s summer, the play
observes the emotional carnage which results when Blanche Dubois -
ageing southern belle, disgraced schoolteacher, and sexually
experienced single woman of 40 or so - comes to stay in the cramped
two-room apartment which has, until then, been the blissful newly wed
love-nest of Blanche's young ...