![]() Williams’s carefully detailed, literal two-room apartment is never shown. With Patsy Ferran and Paul Mescal in incandescent form, she brings the classic roaring back to electrifying life. ![]() But director Rebecca Frecknall’s hypnotic production goes for broke, slinging out almost all of Williams’ stage directions and simultaneously delivering both. ![]() I want magic!” Blanche’s famously desperate cry holds the key to most approaches to “ A Streetcar Named Desire.” Productions of Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece tend to chose one or the other: overemphasizing the sweat and grit of life with the Kowalskis or slavishly obeying Williams’s instructions to deliver Blanche’s tragic, hope-filled reverie. ![]()
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