"Tennessee Williams doesn’t do happy endings but this production represents a triumph over disaster. Frecknall proves herself again to be a director of great vision and invention."
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"For all its clever artifice and non-naturalism, it is the power of these performances that gives this production its fierce and dangerous energy."
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"The evening falls short of Summer and Smoke’s revelations, but grips with the intensity of a bad dream."
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"This Streetcar isn't quite as revelatory as that extraordinary production. But it is nevertheless a thoughtful and insightful look at a great and emotional play...and where the fear of both can tear a woman's mind to shreds."
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"Not an ounce of 'great theatre' stiffness here: this is raw, poetic, painful and plausible. Funny, too."
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"This is ferociously gripping, aesthetically astute, complex and compassionate – a well-worn drama turned into a searingly intimate journey into personal hell, its sufferings tricked out in lurid fantasy yet horribly, and compellingly, real."
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"This production’s approach to foregrounding ... themes with extraneous bells and whistles rather crowds out the the luminous prose in the text."
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"For a play that we usually think of as full of heightened emotion, Frecknall’s version feels deftly controlled and all the more effective for it. It takes a while to build in the first half but, once it does, it’s masterful."
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