A 'Streetcar' You'll Want to Catch
AnnaLinda Andersson
Issue date: 11/11/09 Section: Entertainment
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The strong performances from faculty and students will take audience through time to a hot and humid post-World War II New Orleans.
The play, written in 1947, made Marlon Brando a star both on Broadway and on the film screen and judging from the performance by the GCC students on the opening night, the future will brighten for many of them as well.
The play was directed by Jeanette D. Farr, and it shows she knows her Tennessee Williams. She manages to cast the perfect actors, for both the roles of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. Blanche played by Libby Letlow, looked a lot, with her small frame and blonde hair, like Vivien Leigh from the motion picture version of the play.
Letlow managed to capture the southern accents and the nervous persona of the delusional character.
DJ Kemp who plays Stanley Kowalski gave a powerful performance and even though his character is quite extreme in his emotions, Kemp handledthem all very naturally.
The play starts with a woman standing under a streetlamp, singing a soulful song with a touch of heartbreak in true 1940s New Orleans fashion.
While she is singing, the stage fills up with people, but it is not until she stops singing that the audience is introduced to two of the three main characters: Stella and Stanley Kowalski.
Stanley, a Polish-American, is a hard-working mechanic. Stella, played by Mary Claire Garcia, is a Southern belle from a more privileged background. Although Stella and Stanley come from two different backgrounds, they do not have a problem with that. However, not everyone is fine with them being together.
After Stella follows Stanley to watch him bowl, a woman, who looks out of place by the look of her outfit, appears on the scene looking for her sister's address. This turns out to be Stella's sister, Blanche DuBois, who is paying a surprise visit.
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