Blanche DuBois (2)

e como disseste, Rui, Vivien Leigh era mais fantasmagórica, as rendas e o fato branco (não o de Emily) esvoaçante, uma Blanche projectada como (também disseste, Rui) podemos andar cinco minutos no pleno vazio, em Lisboa, ruas fictícias de casas que já não existem. Alexandra está lá, em carne e flirtatious, namorando o vazio.



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"He went on to defend the women in his plays, many of them among the most memorable female roles ever created for the theater- Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire," Alma Winemiller in "Summer and Smoke," Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Alexandra Del Lago in "Sweet Bird of Youth." "I have no animosity toward women," Williams said. "I tend to regard them as inviolable- like sisters and mothers. They're best when played as totally Woman. That's what was so thrilling about Irene Worth's performance in this latest 'Sweet Bird.' She was meant to be totally female, not a transvestite. I find transvestites boring and superficial. They have no real passion except a narcissistic interest in how they look. I couldn't be interested in that. No, no animosity. Was Blanche a monster? I thought she was very likable. And Miss Alma too. Alexandra Del Lago was likable, though she was a monster. But most people are monsters; they don't want to admit it, but they are. We all learn to operate within a system of enormous hypocrisy." T. Williams em entrevista ao NY Times, aqui.