A Streetcar Named Desire

I was so pleased that the Director, Jean Cooper, and the cast did not attempt to sanitize the script. ‘Streetcar’ is very much of its time and the values and social mores need their original setting for the audience to appreciate how very shocking they were in their day.  It also gives the cast an opportunity to display some very controversial attitudes and responses which, maybe with our modern thinking, would not make for such an emotional high-octane piece, enabling the cast to draw on their reserve of acting talent to achieve this.  Seeing the play and doing the report has prompted me to look into the writing of this play and I read that it was written from Blanche’s point of view, and that it is the fantasies we create to escape which actually imprison us.  Jean Cooper’s sensitive handling of the script was a masterpiece of interpretation and insight into Blanche’s condition and the reaction of other people to her – she was imprisoned by her fantasies from which there would never be any escape for her

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