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Article: Where the 'Streetcars' have a name
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- Pacific Sun
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- April 11, 2008
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Where the 'Streetcars' have a name
MTC depends on more than 'kindness of strangers' to pull off Williams classic...
NOW PLAYING
A Streetcar Named Desire runs through April 20 at Marin Theatre Company, 415/388-5208, www. marintheatre.org.
Mrs. Warren's Profession runs through April 20 at Shotgun Players, Ashby Stage, 510/841-6500, www.snotgunplayers.org.
In spite of the Brando hype (his bellowing "Stella!" has become a synonym for lust), A Streetcar Named Desire is not Stanley Kowalski's. It belongs to the playwright's vulnerable, articulate, beautiful, emotional, gifted, sexual and severely damaged alter ego. Stanley is just one of the weapons the world uses to drive Blanche DuBois (and ...
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......the director's cut of "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Brattle Theatre...Elysian Fields, where the streetcar named Desire deposited desperate, destitute...not realism. What makes "A Streetcar Named Desire" rewarding to watch today...
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