A Streetcar Named Desire extends West End run by one week
The West End transfer of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Phoenix Theatre has announced an extra week of performances by popular demand.
The West End transfer of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Phoenix Theatre has announced an extra week of performances by popular demand.
Paul Mescal, Patsy Ferran, Anjana Vasan and Dwane Walcott reprise their roles in the West End transfer of A Streetcar Named Desire
Julian Eaves reviews the West End transfer of Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams at the Duke Of York’s Theatre London.
Summer and Smoke Almeida Theatre Four stars Book Now Despite the poetic beauty of Tennessee Williams’s writing, at the height of his success, his dramas were rooted in reality, whether a St Louis apartment or a plantation home in the Deep South. His rarely produced 1948 play Summer and Smoke is set in the small, gossip-ridden Mississippi town of Glorious Hill which, according to the writer’s detailed notes, was to be clearly represented on stage, from American Gothic architecture to a public park presided over by the statue of an angel. But modern directors have been inspired by the fluid, dream-like qualities of Williams’s plays, especially his later work, to take a more abstract approach, which reaches sublime heights under director Rebecca Frecknall and designer Tom Scutt in a stunning new production at the Almeida. Nine upright pianos, each topped by a metronome, line the back of the otherwise stripped-back … Read more
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