“With simple additions like contemporary music and iPhones, director Jeffrey Puukka demonstrates the continuously relevant story arch of ‘Streetcar‘ in today’s society. This modern production deftly depicts how the reaction to rape victims has never really changed in the years since the play opened on Broadway in 1947. The play also illuminates the different ways people confront the topic with the people in their lives.
The production choreographs the simultaneous goings-on in every room of Stella and Stanley’s small New Orleans home, and on the porch and street outside their front door. The set design is ironic, with floating windows and empty door frames. The set is made without walls, yet the characters obviously have several emotional walls between each other.
This disconnect is expertly depicted by Lyra Butler-Denman (Blanche), Leila Villasenor (Stella) and Daniel Donlon (Stanley).”
(Brittany Allen, reviewing A Streetcar Named Desire, for The Sandy Post / Pamplin Media Group)
(Production) A Streetcar Named Desire
Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
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Sandy Actors Theatre presents
A Streetcar Named Desire
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Jeffrey Puukka
Summer in New Orleans. Stanley and his wife Stella are intoxicated by each other, and just beginning their lives together. Then Stella’s sister Blanche drifts in from somewhere else, like a wilting flower afraid of the sun. As she moves into their cramped apartment, the temperature climbs and temperaments clash. Suddenly there’s a growing gap between the way each saw themselves, and the life they’re actually living.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is sly, steamy, and severe. What must be sacrificed for life to feel livable?
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The Production
*Audience Advisory / Trigger Warning: This production contains adult language and triggering content, including alcoholism, and staged sequences of domestic violence and sexual violence.
Duration: Approximately three hours and five minutes, including the fifteen minute intermission.
From 6th – 29th September.
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30p.
Sunday afternoons at 3p.
At Sandy Actors Theatre, 17433 Meinig Ave, Sandy, OR 97055 (Located behind ACE Hardware)
With
Lyra Butler-Denman
Leila Villasenor
Daniel Donlon
Eric L. Island
Zoë Cain
Richard Gimmi
Robbie Cantrell
Christy Harrington
Team
Jeffrey Puukka (Direction), Katherine Marmer (Stage Management), Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill (Scenic and lighting design), Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam (Costumes), Mardee Willman (Violence Choreography), Jim Beam (Carpentry chief), Marcos Hernandez (Carpentry), Malakai Cain Hernandez (Carpentry, Sound Board Operator), Zoë Cain (Muralist), Jonica Tabler (Properties and co-producer), Ross MacKae (Co-Producer)
Reviews
17 September, 2019 – Pamplin Media Group
Daniel Donlon in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Leila Villasenor in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Robbie Cantrell in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Lyra Butler-Denman and Eric L. Island in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Leila Villasenor and Daniel Donlon in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Eric L. Island in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Robbie Cantrell and Lyra Butler-Denman in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Zoë Cain and Richard Gimmi in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Lyra Butler-Denman in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Christy Harrington and Lyra Butler-Denman in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Eric L. Island and Lyra Butler-Denman in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Zoë Cain in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley. 
Lyra Butler-Denman in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”, directed by Jeffrey Puukka. Scenic and Lighting design by Benjamin Alan Akre-Hill. Costume coordination by Cheryl Rudarmel-Beam. Sandy Actor’s Theatre, 2019. Photograph: Michael Henley.
Audience engagement programs
There will be talk back and dialogue events with Lyra Butler-Denman (Blanche), Leila Villasenor (Stella), Daniel Donlon (Stanley), Eric Island (Mitch) and Jeffrey Puukka (Director) after the matinees on Sundays September the 8th and 22nd.
Media Resources
Marketing image information and credits: In the frame, Lyra Butler-Denman as Blanche, and Leila Villasenor as Stella, photographed by Natasha Elizabeth Hass-Hauskins.
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