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STREETCAR [I DON'T WANT REALISM]

from TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

FARKAS HALL | Cambridge, MA | 2018

STREETCAR [I DON'T WANT REALISM] is a fragmentary reconstruction of Elia Kazan's 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's seminal text, A Streetcar Named Desire. Live actors mimetically reproduce the iconic performances of Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, channeling the actors that have defined contemporary dramatic realism.​ As the film begins to fracture and decompose, it forces the performers, who are left with only their own voices and bodies, to find a new way through the text.

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