Word: blancheã
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She’s even more sensitive than Mitch (Richard J. Powell ’05), Blanche??€™s momentary beau. Mitch is often cast as the mushball of Streetcar, but he takes on a darker cast in this production. Though Mitch is inherently a fumbling misfit, Powell takes him even further and gives him a half-lobotomized air; this is the first Streetcar I’ve seen where Mitch, not Stanley, is the one with the taciturn attitude and the undercurrent of animalism. In the text, Mitch and Blanche mesh well because they can share their personal...
Truer is the production’s Stella (Andrea D. Leahy ’05), Stanley’s wife and Blanche??€™s sister. She’s not Williams’ most three-dimensional character, but Leahy interprets Stella as solidly as Williams allows. She’s a Stella who bestrides Stanley’s and Blanche??€™s dark worlds and somehow manages to remain a good and worthy person through it all—a Stella who contains both sensuality and sensitivity, reconciling them with a spirit of endearing fraternity...
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