When I saw that Tennessee Williams wrote this play I was very excited to see it. I studied some of his other works in an English class at UWL so I knew it was going to be a good play. I was very impressed with the director and the choices he made to make sure the play had all of the attributes that Tennessee Williams commonly had in his stories. She was able to make sure her actors all knew that Tennessee Williams was famous for his southern grotesque writing where it is hard to distinguish the good characters from the bad ones. I also liked how the director was able to make us think and that the play didn’t have a perfect storyline where the good people won and the bad lost. She ended the play at a time where we don’t know whether Blanche …show more content…
Lighting was used very effectively to show a lot of conflict that wasn’t part of the main storyline. When the shadows of people were present in the background it drew the audiences attention away from what was happening on the main stage. The lighting also did a good job of setting a mood. When the shadows in the background were dancing and kissing it set a romantic mood and when the mood was more serious the background shadows were fighting. Also when Blanche put the filter over the light in the bedroom, it gave the play the more happy and romantic feel that Blanche’s character brought to the …show more content…
Blanche was always dressed in fancy clothes to show the wealth that she once had, while Stella and the rest of the actors dressed more poorly and dirty to show the struggles they have encountered. Also the costumes did a good job to show the mental instability of Blanche when she was dressing very inappropriately for the situations that she was. Another aspect of costumes that I liked was how the clothing of Stanley depicted the manipulative character on Stanley. After he heard the conversation between Blanche and Stella he started to dress better to prove Blanche wrong and to deceive his wife that he was a better