‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ review: Paul Mescal sizzles, Patsy Ferran amazes in 4-star revival
nypost.comGladiator II” star Paul Mescal onstage in Brooklyn. And, as brutish Stanley Kowalski, the part made famous by an early-career Marlon Brando, the 29-year-old Irishman does not disappoint.
Mescal is a human wrecking ball as he snarls and barrels around the boxing-ring stage like it’s a sweaty tribal ritual.But while the crowd has come for Paul, at the end of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, which opened Tuesday night at BAM, they leave raving about Patsy.That’s Patsy Ferran, the unbelievable 35-year-old British actress who’s been lavished with acclaim in London for years, but is not yet well known stateside.
That ends today.Ferran, small and deceptively sweet, makes an unlikely — and perfect — Blanche DuBois in director Rebecca Frecknall’s superb revival from Britain.
Consider that the last celeb at BAM to tackle the part of the fading Southern belle who guzzles booze to numb her mysterious pain was the ever-intimidating Cate Blanchett.
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