Streetcar at Heidelberg
Tennessee Williams's masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire, set in the steamy New Orleans Summer of 1949, is Heidelberg Theatre Company’s September 2016 production.
Its well-known plot deals with the visit of Blanche Dubois, fragile, disgraced and penniless, to the small and simple apartment of the Kowalskis; Stanley and Blanche's sister, Stella. Stella, though she loves both sister and husband, is unable to stem an escalating conflict between them, a conflict that culminates in tragic loss for all three.
A strong acting ensemble includes Aimée Sanderson, Warren Logan, Ben Watts, Don Nicholson, Sam Howard, Laurie Jezard, Steph Gonelli, Claire Benne, Katie Hall and Paul Mamone.
Production team is led by Karen Wakeham (Director) and Bruce Akers, who has created a set design based on one he made for his own HTC production of 'Streetcar' in 1995. Owen Evans is taking responsibility for set realisation, with his team: Neville Wilkie, Doug Mc Naughton, Paddy Moriarty, Des Harris, Ian Mc Cabe, Mal Cother, Norm Munks, Steph Gonelli and Dave Belton.
Costumes are by Wendy Drowley, and David Cheshire is composing new music, which will be played live in the theatre by saxophonist, Tim Overton.
This beautiful and haunting play, which an admiring Arthur Miller described as 'language flowing from the soul', is one of the pinnacles of American dramatic art.
A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams Directed by Karen Wakeham
9– 24 September, 2016
Evenings at 8.00pm Matinees:
Sundays 11, 18 & Saturday 24 Sept. at 2pm
Bookings: htc.org.au or (03) 9457 4117.
Rehearsal Image: (from left): Aimée Sanderson, (Stella), Warren Logan, (Stanley), Claire Benne, (Blanche), Paul Mamone, (Pablo). Photographer: David Belton .
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