This is a huge play for us, given C's run in Pentacle Theatre's 2012 production of the same show. We've seen it at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Portland Center Stage, in the film version with Marlon Brando, and now this production, with Gillian Anderson of X-Files fame.
It was a very strong production, with a relatively small set of the two-room house constantly rotating for the audience in the round. Anderson's Blanche was pretty good, without having as much pathos as some actresses bring to the role. But the actors who played Stanley and Stella were the truly brilliant members of this company. The visceral animal passion that supposedly brought them together explodes in a few key moments. Ben Foster, the out of control brother in "Hell or High Water" and the traumatized homeless veteran living in Portland's Forest Park with his daughter in "Leave No Trace," has a humongous presence as Stanley.
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/nt-at-home-a-streetcar-named-desire
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