Desire and death in the Deep South
A Streetcar Named Desire
Any new production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is prone to reductive comparison with myriad other versions, most notably Elia Kazan's film. Tom Littler successfully wills us to view the work afresh here, and cast aside our memories of previous interpretations.
Drama: Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw modestly dubbed this play “extremely successful, both on stage and screen”. Certainly it continues to exert a powerful grip on the imagination.
Drama: Woman In Mind
Woman in Mind opens in a traditional English garden with Susan (Caroline Brown) a middle-aged lady, waking after having been ‘brained' by a hoe. She is tended to by the local doctor Bill (Christopher Chalk), but as she gradually slips back into consciousness his words melt in and out of gibberish, and finally into English again.
Drama: La Chunga
Reviewing La Chunga on a very cold morning in Wadham chapel, I was in no mood to be won over to the cause of sexy Latin drama, but I was. Set in a bar presided over by the eponymous la Chunga, this is a story of fantasy and obsession.
