With the proper venue selected, Streetcar has now begun
previews at St. Ann's, in a run that will continue through June 4.
Though Anderson felt like she had no unfinished business with Blanche
after the London engagement, as rehearsals began for her second shot at
the iconic role, she quickly discovered she was wrong.
Anderson explained when was the first time she desired to play Blanche DuBois, and what is it like to come back to this role a year and a half later.
"It's been rattling around in my head for a few decades. It was only after I started actually working on the dialogue that I realized that I had spent time with the text before."
"I've never had this experience before, going back to something that has a text that is memorized. I've gone back to characters, but not to something that is verbatim. That's an interesting journey, the journey of the brain and memory and what one holds on to."
"It just so happens St. Ann's was in the process of this build and is the
perfect place and aesthetic. Having it in Brooklyn between the bridges,
the industrial nature of it, and the all-American-ness of that space,
it works really well. We are very lucky to have St. Ann's and the
malleable space that it is."
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