Sunday, March 11, 2012
Ballet Theater's 'Streetcar' fascinating, hauntingly powerful
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre presents several ballets each season it knows will be very popular with a wide audience, ones which can be taken primarily as entertainment. In mounting John Neumeier`s 1983 "A Streetcar Named Desire" over the weekend at the Benedum Center, Downtown, the ballet offered an artistically ambitious work that is fascinating, challenging and hauntingly powerful. It is the first American company to perform the work.
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I am such a sucker for A Streetcar Named Desire. Being one of my favorite plays, I would be absolutely fascinated to see it in Ballet form. I find it hard to imagine such an iconic piece of theatre being performed without the power of speech. That being said, ballet offers so much to a story that also can not be communicated purely through speech or acting. I wish I would have been in Pittsburgh to see this "haunting" piece.
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