Olivier Award-winning director Rebecca Frecknall brings the production back to the London stage for a limited run next year.
A Streetcar Named Desire previous production image. Photo by Marc Brenner.
A Streetcar Named Desire heads to London, prior to its US premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Paul Mescal, best known for Gladiator II and his BAFTA winning role in Normal People, Olivier Award winners Patsy Ferran (Summer & Smoke) and Anjana Vasan (We Are Lady Parts) with Dwane Walcott (One Night in Miami, Our Girl)will reprise their roles of Stanley, Blanche, Stella and Harold ‘Mitch’ Mitchell respectively.
They will be joined by Eduardo Ackerman (Pablo Gonzales), Rob Dempsey (Understudy Drummer/Doctor), Janet Etuk (Eunice Hubbel), Alexander Eliot (Steve Hubbel/Understudy Stanley Kowalski/Harold "Mitch" Mitchell), Gabriela Garcia (Flower Seller/Nurse/Singer/Understudy Stella Kowalski), Francesca Knight (Understudy Blanche Dubois/Eunice Hubbel), Tom Penn (Doctor/Drummer), Curtis Patrick (Understudy Young Collector/Steve Hubbel/Pablo Gonzales), Constanza Ruff (Understudy Flower Seller/Nurse/Singer) and Jabez Sykes (Young Collector).
Almeida Theatre's critically acclaimed, hot ticket, sell-out production of A Streetcar Named Desire focuses on the tense relationship between the delicate, fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois and her volatile brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, in a working-class New Orleans neighborhood. As Blanche's illusions unravel under Stanley's brutal scrutiny, the production exposes audiences to themes of desire, class conflict and mental instability before coming to a dramatic climax.
A Streetcar Named Desire will run at Noel Coward Theatre from 3 - 22 February 2025.
