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Matthew David and Michelle Mountain in the Purple Rose production of A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire

A strong and shapely production

by Sally Mitani

posted 3/2/2009

You can sit back and appreciate Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire as a bluesy, boozy 1940s love song to New Orleans if you want. And no one will blame you if that’s all you want to do with this extravagant parade of ludicrous plot points—southern belles losing the plantation and disappearing into gin joints, men smacking their women around and

 
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