Paul Maysal’s fierce star in a brutal “tram”

“The sky that appears around the low white building is a particularly tender blue color, which is approximately turquoise, which invests the scene with a kind of lyric and relieves the atmosphere of decay.”

It is not likely to be integrate.

These trends may be the phase of the text of Tennessee Williams, published by “A Retrcar Named Desire” as an important statement and an artist’s doctrine, but 78 years after the match appeared, they no longer walk orders.

In any case, no one follows them. The New Orleans neighborhood in which Williams set the procedure – called the Elysian fields, no less – was radically re -imagined: Shoe boxand FoldManga, bathroom. At his review in the New York Times, Ben Brantley called the latter, directed by Evo Van Hove, “a bath named”.

Now Rebecca Frecknall, which is not Broadway’s production of “Cabaret” is an idea of ​​a hidden person, takes cudgel. in Reviving “tram” that opened on Tuesday At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a transmission from London, the fierce star of Paul Misal, protects the idea of ​​brutal transition. You will not find a thin blue sky or even a white building, not to mention any lyrical, in the Madeleine Girling box, the wood group. High on concrete blocks, at the Dark Harvey Theater, making Stanley and Stella Kawalasky – and among them the weak, Blanche Dubua – looks like a boxing ring.

There is some justice in that: Stanley, after all, Williams icon is half of it, half of which are loved by the brute. It enters the first scene that carries a group of bloody meat, which it throws in Stella for cooking – a gesture that you find is briefly disturbing but this also runs it. No less than her husband, as she looks to make what she calls “noise at night” and get “colored lights”. This is a kind of lyric. And when Blanche, Stella’s poor sister, arrives despair for an unlimited stay, we see her side as she goes out to destroy it because he can.