Glencoe, Illinois
May - August 2010
Scenery: Collette Pollard
Costumes: Janice Pytel
Lighting: Heather Gilbert
Sound: Josh Schmidt
This confined space ...cannot house both the damaged, delicate Blanche and the insensitive, egoistic Stanley without a decisive conflagration. [...] with the screech of the streetcar lines in our ears [...] Performed in dim candlelight — Heather Gilbert’s lighting design is extraordinary throughout — the scene includes a third character, the ghost of Blanche’s early love, who rises in her vision as she recalls the fateful night by the lake.
Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/theater/reviews/19streetcar.html
...some of the seats in this configuration are little more than inches away from the bed [...] Memories float. Cats howl. Beds creak. Punches are thrown. Fiery jazz stabs the air. Such is the attention to the most precise little details [...] Cromer stages the shadows that dance in Blanche's head — her unfortunate affair with a fellow who turned out to be a “degenerate” [...] the crucial progression after the fight, when violent Stanley has smacked his wife...
Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/the_theater_loop/2010/05/streetcar-named-desire-cromer-review-writers-theatre-glencoe.html
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