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A Streetcar Named Desire

Trying to leave a troubled past behind her, fading southern belle Blanche DuBois moves into her sister Stella’s New Orleans apartment. Stella’s brutish husband Stanley sees that Blanche is not what she appears to be, and sets out to destroy her…

Date:
2012
Company:
Scottish Ballet
Director:
Nancy Meckler
Choreography:
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Set and costume design:
Niki Turner
Lighting Design:
Tim Mitchell
Photography:
Andy Ross
Awards:
Sky Arts Best Dance Production Award, Olivier Award Nominated

Reviews:

Composer Peter Salem’s beguiling music, performed by the Opera House Orchestra, included a mix of jazz, swing, mournful saxophone and unnerving piano notes that wafted like smoke and doom, all of which imbued the ballet with just the right off-kilter atmosphere.

Sarah Kaufman 29 May 2012 The Washington Post

The dancers were brilliantly served by Peter Salem’s atmospheric score, which blended elements of jazz, obsessive minimalist figures, dissonant crashes and keening string romance

Laura Dodge 27 Apr 2012 londondance.com
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