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"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams reviewed by Ed Vincent This is a top notch play to start with, lots of pathos, unbridled passion, both good and bad, cards, women, and liquor. It could be a wild party from someone's early years, but this is rather a tale of young adults with all their baggage of class distinction, uncelebrated victories, and lots of folks just trying to find themselves and make sense of it all. If you take that as a guide map, add some folks with distorted realities and plenty of issues, you have a reality television show on stage. Deception, dismissal, and dominance might also describe a visit to a BDSM club, but Williams gives birth to these basal instincts in a small southern apartment. Stanley, known to many from the film starring Marlon Brando, is played by the talented Nico Tricoci. Julie Partyka illuminates the stage as the famed Blanche DuBois, and Jodie Wonio Kingsley as Stella brings a triumphant life to the words of Tennessee Williams. Filling out the cast there are Kevin Bry, Matt Dolgin, Valerie Gorman, Sarah Gruber, Carl Occhipinti and Franco Pawlisz. The performance is powerful and artistic, the sets simple and inviting-like a spider web of intrigue. Village Players keeps getting better and better and this show is defintely one to see and tell your friends about, and while your at it, get a subscription.    © Oak Park Journal photo "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" HEATS UP FEBRUARY AT OAK PARK'S VILLAGE PLAYERS THEATRE Nico Tricoci as Stanley confronts Julie Partyka as Blanche in Village Players Theatre's production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Photo Credit: Scott Lee Heckman. OAK PARK, ILL.-There may be no other play with quite the same punch as Tennessee Williams' American classic, "A Streetcar Named Desire." It is so powerful an exploration of fractured domesticity, sexual love and frustration that its two central characters, Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois, are nothing less than American icons. Village Players Theatre presents Williams' Pulitzer prize-winning masterpiece February 12 through 26 at 1010 Madison St., Oak Park, Ill. The play stars Nico Tricoci as Stanley, Julie Partyka as Blanche and Jodie Wonio Kingsley as Stella. The cast also includes Kevin Bry, Matt Dolgin, Valerie Gorman, Sarah Gruber, Carl Occhipinti and Franco Pawlisz. "A Streetcar Named Desire" previews on February 10 and 11 at 8 p.m. The premiere performance, sponsored by Starship Restaurant, is 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 12 and includes a dinner catered by Starship after the show in the theater with the cast and crew. Regular performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. through February 26. A special matinee performance for seniors is scheduled for February 15 at 1 p.m. and includes a reception in the theater. About Village Players Theatre A vibrant part of Oak Park's cultural history for 45 years, Village Players Theatre is one of the oldest theater companies in Chicagoland. The theater promotes a creative spirit that comes alive in its productions and educational programs. For more information please call 708-524-1892, or visit online at www.village-players.org # # # In post World War II French Quarter New Orleans, fragile, impoverished schoolteacher Blanche DuBois comes to live with her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski. Clashing personalities and slowly simmering frustration boil over in an act that leaves one woman shattered. Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer prize-winning masterpiece from 1948 earned its place among American theater classics. Perhaps only Death of A Salesman and Long Day's Journey Into Night are as well-known and few plays have the power Williams packs into his "domestic drama." Tortured souls indeed. It's uncouth sexuality vs. frail pretension and reality vs. delusion when yin meets yang. Yes, it's all about desire. |
Village Players Theater
1010 West Madison
Oak Park, Illinois
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Village
Players Theatre is a non-equity professional
theater
located in Oak Park, IL at 1010 W. Madison St –
North
of 290 and East of Harlem Ave.
This is
the Village Players 41st Season of quality
entertainment.