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| Posted by: MFeingold 07:28 pm EDT 06/04/18 | |
| In reply to: Streetcar Named Desire - bearcat 06:33 pm EDT 06/04/18 | |
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| Blanche continues to fascinate audiences becaues she's such a complex and often contradictory figure; the line resonates, and went into common parlance, not only because of the bitter irony of the dramatic context, but because it can be read so many ways and has so many possible meanings. I have seen Blanches - Lois Nettleton in Ellis Rabb's Lincoln Center production when it transferred to Broadway comes to mind - who played the last scene totally sane and desperately eager to put everything connected with Stanley and that place behind her. There is no easy way to predict what sort of institution Blanche is going to or how she will cope there. Blanche is emotionally fragile, and a gantasist, but she can also be surprisingly hard-headed and practical, as well as more than a little deceitful. She has survived a lot, and may have the toughness and intelligence/cunning to go on doing so. Hard to tell. Which is just another way of saying there's a reason we think of this as a great play. |
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| re: Streetcar Named Desire | |
| Posted by: Thom915 10:01 pm EDT 06/04/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Streetcar Named Desire - MFeingold 07:28 pm EDT 06/04/18 | |
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| Interesting. I loved Lois Nettleton's Blanche and though I would possibly agree with you that she was sane compared to other Blanches I have seen, she was definitely IMO traumatized. That production was one of my favorite productions I have ever seen of the play and of course Lois Nettleton replaced and based her interpretation on that of Rosemary Harris who originated the role in that revival. I personally think Nettleton was even better than Harris, who was great. | |
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| re: Streetcar Named Desire | |
| Posted by: bearcat 12:21 pm EDT 06/05/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Streetcar Named Desire - Thom915 10:01 pm EDT 06/04/18 | |
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| unfortunately, the Bway transfer ended rather quickly. didn't Lois Nettleton appear on the Mary Tyler Moore show once-anyone remember her situation - character on it? |
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| re: Streetcar Named Desire—Lois Nettleton on MTM | |
| Posted by: Johno60 10:29 pm EDT 06/05/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Streetcar Named Desire - bearcat 12:21 pm EDT 06/05/18 | |
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| I think Lois Nettleton did a guest spot as a TV producer who had some authority over Lou Grant—and pursued him romantically. I think she also caught George Costanza going through the garbage and wanted her daughter to break up with him. Lois Nettleton—always worked—for years |
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| re: Streetcar Named Desire | |
| Posted by: allineedisthegirl 10:14 am EDT 06/05/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Streetcar Named Desire - Thom915 10:01 pm EDT 06/04/18 | |
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| The sanest Blanche I've seen was Cate Blanchette. She was Stanley's equal from her first meeting with him, mixing active seduction in equal parts with her belittling of him. And the "rape" scene was ambiguous. It seemed likely that Blanche's claim to Stella that she had been raped was a tactical move, and that Stella's choosing to believe Stanley over her sister was a practical choice. db |
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