Popular Press Riviews
→ Smartly conceived revival…At its heart is Rachel Weisz, whose performance as Blanche DuBois…proves mesmerizing. [The Evening Standard – Henry Hitching]
→ One ends up marvelling again at Williams’s play, with its delicate verbal echoes as Blanche’s confession of her ‘intimacies with strangers’ anticipates her famous last line, but I emerged impressed without quite being overwhelmed. [The Guardian – Michael Billington]
→ The contrast between Weisz’s refined and mannered gentility, and Cowan’s coarse, destructive physicality creates a simmering tension that keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout…this is, by some distance, the best Streetcar I have ever seen. [The Daily Telegraph – Charles Spencer]
→ Both Glenn Close and Jessica Lange recently played the role in London, but neither had the charisma of Rachel Weisz. Does she underplay Blanche’s preciosity and squeamish affectations? Maybe; but she has the intelligence, the wry humour, the yearning for love and the capacity to express it. [The Times – Benedict Nightingale]