舞台劇版慾望街車受到媒體好評 http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/reviews/2009-11-01-streetcar-review_N.htm Ullman guides Blanchett to intense, beautiful 'Streetcar' WASHINGTON — In 2006, Cate Blanchett made her American stage debut as one of the most famously and formidably dysfunctional women in the dramatic canon. Appearing in the title role of a Sydney Theatre Company production of Hedda Gabler, the film star gave a performance that was stylish and energetic but surprisingly unfocused; Blanchett never really seemed to get under Hedda's skin, and her Hedda, as a result, never got under ours. What a difference three years and, apparently, more intuitive direction can make. In the STC's new staging of A Streetcar Named Desire (***½ out of four), helmed by the actress-turned-director Liv Ullmann, Blanchett tackles an even more iconic basket case; and the results are far more satisfying. The part of Blanche DuBois may not seem a natural fit for this robust leading lady. In her program notes for this Streetcar, which opened Saturday at Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater — it will be there through Nov. 21, then run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Nov. 27-Dec. 20 — Ullmann points out that Tennessee Williams initially titled his play The Moth, a creature invoked in the stage directions introducing Blanche. Blanchett has clearly worked to master the fluttery fragility and affected refinement of this damaged Southern belle. Wandering into the home of her sister Stella and aggressively unrefined brother-in-law, Stanley, her Blanche seems so tightly wound and delicate that you fear a brisk wind will knock her flat on the sidewalk. Yet what makes this portrait most compelling isn't the hyper-neurotic body language — how Blanchett manically powders her nose or frantically grasps for a bottle of liquor — but the emotional candor and intensity the actress brings to her character's words and expressions. The ghosts and demons haunting Blanche are always palpable, whether she's addressing them or denying them, and Blanchett, under Ullmann's vigorous but sensitive guidance, makes her desperation absorbing. The actress and director also mine the wry humor and earthy sensuality in Williams' play, and find a tenderness that's not always emphasized. Joel Edgerton and Robin McLeavy, the superb actors cast as Stanley and Stella, are key here. McLeavy's soft, exquisitely natural Stella provides Blanche with a perfect foil while also bringing out her gentler side, as well as Stanley's. When Stanley, after erupting at his wife during a card game, seeks and eventually gains Stella's forgiveness, their reunion could not be sweeter or sexier. The harder, more disturbing chemistry between Stanley and Blanche clearly fascinates Ullmann. Blanchett and the equally attractive Edgerton get a good, long look at each other when their characters meet; later, as Stanley's beta-male buddy (endearingly played by Tim Richards) Mitch flirts with Blanche, Edgerton's reaction has a twinge of jealousy. And in Stanley and Blanche's climactic drunken scene, the line between desire and loathing is blurred painfully, and a bit histrionically. There are other points when Blanchett, Ullmann and company seem a bit too keen to capture all the play's lurid psychodrama. But no matter: This Streetcar is a brutal beauty that demands our attention, and rewards it. -- 【歌手女優復出之路遙遠】中山美穗【專職廣告明星】 http://psiloveyou.idv.lv --

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