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...Mitch and Blanche mesh well because they can share their personal tragedies (Mitch’s mother is terminally ill, while Blanche drove her gay husband to suicide); when they’re together in this staging, it almost feels like a couple of Marat/Sade lunatics are taking a stab at their scenes...
...tell you why it’s impossible to stage a great production of A Streetcar Named Desire. It’s nothing against the Eliot Drama Society’s perfectly fine stab at the show, which ran last weekend. But just as there’s no artistic reason to mount a revival of The King and I now that Yul Brynner’s dead, there’s no reason to put on Streetcar as long as the DVD of its film remains in stock at Blockbuster...
...only Zhao understood herself as well as her director does. Here she takes a stab: "Perhaps my most outstanding personal trait is my lack of outstanding personal traits. The characters I play have much more personality than I do. So maybe it's easier for me to slip into the various characters. Also, the parts I play are all very different. So in that sense my absence of persona is an advantage. But maybe one day I'll develop a strong personality and it'll give me a whole new kind of career...
...skip Dogville, because I’m not inclined to check out another Von Trier, even if he’s spinning Our Town. If I have to watch a Dogme man reinterpret Thornton Wilder, I’ll wait for Thomas Vinterberg to take a deranged stab at The Matchmaker...
...DIED. PETER NIELSEN, 36, air-traffic controller who was blamed for a 2002 midair collision over southern Germany that killed 71 people, mostly Russian schoolchildren; of stab wounds he suffered in an attack at his home; in Zurich. Police arrested a 48-year-old man, whose name has not been released, on suspicion of killing Nielsen. Investigators say the suspect lost his wife, a daughter and a son in the crash...