(By Colin Dabkowski, Buffalo News) Blanche DuBois doesn’t want realism. She wants magic.
And that makes her the ideal protagonist for Torn Space Theatre, the adventurous company whose raw production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” opened Thursday night in the Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle and Library on Fillmore Avenue.
Much of the company’s work, especially that of its co-founder and “Streetcar” director Dan Shanahan, lives in an uncomfortable space between dreaming and consciousness.
It’s a space where confusion reigns, where images and bits of dialogue that might seem innocuous by the light of day can take on a sinister aspect. It is the place where nightmares are born.
