| re: Streetcar Named Desire |
| 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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