Review: Immersive Revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" Innovates with Genderqueer Blanche
A Streetcar Named Desire Written by Tennessee Williams Directed by Kevin Hourigan Presented by The Coven and Precariat Productions in association with Wolfpack Theatrics at Mister Rogers 231 Rogers Ave, Brooklyn, NYC May 7-25, 2019 Max Carpenter, Isabel Ellison, and Russell Peck. Photo credit: Rosie Soko Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire needs little introduction. The 1947 play won a Pulitzer Prize, the 1951 film adaptation, with some of the play’s sharpest edges sanded off, received critical acclaim, and, of course, a Simpsons parody bestowed upon it one of our society’s more widely recognized imprimaturs of cultural importance. It continues to be widely read, taught, and produced; and a new production under the direction by Kevin Hourigan represents a new chapter in the play’s storied history. For the first time, a U.S. production of Streetcar has been licensed to allow a genderqueer/trans actor to play tragically distressed Southern belle Blanc...