WALLS TRIMBLE
James Russell and Lucy Owen, performing in The Streetcar Project’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
The Streetcar Project, in association with Asbury Book Cooperative, will present its minimal production of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” at Asbury Park’s historic Carousel House, Aug. 17-19.
For information and tickets, visit thestreetcarproject.com/tickets.
Over the past two years, The Streetcar Project has presented the 1947 drama — almost universally acknowledged as one of the greatest American plays — with four actors in unconventional-for-theater locations around the country, including a barn, a factory and an airplane hangar.
“By presenting Tennessee Williams’s complete, unabridged text with no props or set, this production is designed to be performed everywhere,” a press release states. “It’s hyper intimate, completely unique, and incredibly revealing. It strips bare to the bones the greatest piece of American drama.”
Amanda Callas, reviewing a 2024 production in Venice, California, for broadwayworld.com, wrote: “There is a muscular purity in The Streetcar Project, a bold counterpoint to the delicate, poetic beauty of Tennessee William’s language. This production feels contemporary and fresh, with an edgy, f-you, punk rock rebelliousness. Yet it also feels profoundly truthful to the original grittiness of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’ how it was received when it premiered — its New Orleans funk and grime, its rough, perverse sexiness and sweatiness.”
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