A Streetcar Named Desire: sheer dynamite and startlingly erotic

Marge Hendrick as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire

Bethany Kingsley-Garner as Stella and Marge Hendrick as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire

Marge Hendrick with Scottish Ballet in A Streetcar Named Desire

Guest principal Ryoichi Hirano and Marge Hendrick in A Streetcar Named Desire

Von Kathy Elgin, 16 April 2023

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“combining secure classicism with adventurous and sometimes hair-raising modernity”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Theatre Royal, Glasgow, am 13 April 2023

A Streetcar named Desire (Annabelle Lopez Ochoa)

Scottish Ballet

Nancy Meckler, Regie

Nicola Turner, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Tim Mitchell, Licht

Marge Hendrick, Tanz

Ryoichi Hirano, Tanz

Bethany Kingsley-Garner, Tanz

Javier Andreu, Tanz

Jerome Anthony Barnes, Tanz

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***11

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****1

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****1

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****1

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*****

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****1

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Kathy Elgin

After a career in publishing, Kathy Elgin turned her enthusiasm for dance into a real job by joining the late, great John Percival, Dance Critic of The Times, in his re-launch of Dance and Dancers magazine in 1981. She was later delighted to join its rival, The Dancing Times, as Scottish correspondent until the magazine’s sad demise in 2022. She lives in Edinburgh.