National Theatre, LondonYou can see Tennessee Williams's Blanche DuBois in one of two ways: as an embodiment of the poetic spirit destroyed by crude reality or as a southern snob tragically forced to bite the dust. The greatness of Glenn Close's performance in Trevor Nunn's fine revival at the Lyttelton is that it embraces these, and many other, contradictions. Like all first-rate actors, Close takes hair-raising ris…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AM on September 13, 2016