A Streetcar

Yesterday I went to go see A Streetcar Named Desire. I went to the Hattiloo theatre right by Sun studios to see it and it was very interesting. I have read the play and seen the movie already so I was interested to see how it would actually look in play form and it was very interesting. The theatre was definitely the smallest theatre I have ever been in, but it was cozy. My seat was very uncomfortable though. It was cool because it felt like the action was so close that we were all almost part of the play. It was easy to hear when any one in the audience was doing something because of the small theatre so that made the play extra interesting. I like most of the actors however, I did not enjoy the male lead. He was trying to use an accent the whole time and it just did not work. It sounded like he was trying to fuse a northeastern accent with a cajun accent and what we ended up getting was some sort of jumble. I mean he almost sounded like a duck most of the time he talked. I really hope he was not trying to pull of a Polish accent, since he was supposed to be Polish, because I have many relatives who still speak mostly Polish and he was far from it. He was also very far from a Creole/Cajun accent. I also thought the lady playing Blanche did an interesting job. I say interesting because she forgot a lot of her lines and would say the line that was coming up instead of the one that she was supposed to be saying and then stop and say the correct line. That part was bad. However, I do feel as if she did a really good job portraying the actions Blanche would make. She was very good at being flirtatious and acting as if she could not be in the light. All in all I would not say it was the best play I have ever seen, but it was pretty good.