4-Person The Streetcar Project Sets Los Angeles Dates
The underground hit presents the complete, unabridged text of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire with no props or set.
Lucy Owen, Mallory Portnoy, and Brad Koed
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The Streetcar Project, which presents the complete, unabridged text of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire with four performers, no props, and no set, has set Los Angeles engagements for the fall.
The production—co-created by Nick Westrate, who directs, and Lucy Owen—will be presented October 28–30 inside an airplane
hanger overlooking the LA River in Frogtown, on the east
side of Los Angeles. The site-specific production will subsequently take over a warehouse in Venice Beach November 1–3.
The cast will feature co-creator Owen as Blanche DuBois, Brad Koed as Stanley Kowalski, Mallory Portnoy as Stella DuBois, and James Russell as Harold Mitchell.
The Streetcar Project is arriving in Los Angeles following performances that were offered this past year in private homes, a SoHo fashion boutique, movie theatres, churches, barns, warehouses, art galleries, and factories in and around New York City.
A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on Broadway at the Ethel
Barrymore Theatre in December 1947, playing 855 performances before
closing in December 1949. Directed by Elia Kazan, the original company
boasted Jessica Tandy as Blanche, Marlon Brando as Stanley, and Kim
Hunter as Stella. The play would go on to win the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
In the Williams classic, when Blanche unexpectedly visits her
estranged sister Stella, she brings with her a past that will threaten
their future. As Stella’s husband Stanley stalks closer to the truth,
Blanche’s fragile world begins to fracture.
For tickets visit TheStreetcarProject.com.
