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    POLLY BENNETT
    MOVEMENT / CHOREOGRAPHY / CHARACTER 

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    A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 

    Royal Exchange

    September 2016 

     

     

    Director | Sarah Frankom

    Writer | Tennessee Williams 

    Set Design | Fly Davis

    Lighting Designer | Jack Knowles

    Sound Designer | Peter Rice 

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    CAST

    Ben Batt

    Michelle Butterly

    Sandra Cole

    Sharon Duncan-Brewster

    Etta Fusi

    Rueben Johnson

    Youssef Kerkour

    Reece Noi

    Maxine Peake

    Ryan Pope

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    "Maxine Peake has the most eloquent wrists. It’s the little physical details that really make her Blanche DuBois complete: the way she points her toes and crosses her ankles, the way she folds one hand across her back, the poise with which she wields a cigarette."

    **** The Stage 

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    "It helps that Frankcom suggests Blanche is trapped in a living nightmare. On her arrival in New Orleans on her doomed visit to the Kowalskis – sister Stella and her husband, Stanley – Blanche is caught in the midst of a frightening swirl of activity. Peter Rice’s sound design constantly fills the air with throbs, hums and the clang of distant streetcars, while Jack Knowles’s lighting is full of sudden vibrating colour shifts. It is also typical of a phantasmagoric evening that Blanche is shadowed by not one but three figures all bedecked in death-haunted roses.."

    **** The Guardian