Alternative Visions of Blanche DuBois: Uta Hagen and Jessica Tandy in A Streetcar Named Desire
1989; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 32; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3138/md.32.4.545
ISSN1712-5286
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
ResumoBlanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the great roles for an actress in the American repertory. Blanche spends more time onstage than any other character in the play; she is also a richly complex protagonist representing both abstractly civilized and basically physical womanhood in a society that rejects any comfortable fusion of these qualities. Like Hamlet for the actor, Blanche encourages an actress to communicate her vision of the artistic temperament in conflict with a hostile environment; individual performers have been able to represent this conflict differently depending on their own sensibilities and styles. The fust two women to play Blanche were Jessica Tandy and Uta Hagen. They offer remarkable examples of the role's potential for allowing different actresses to generate unique characterizations from the same basic material.
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