Volume 52, Number 10 · June 9, 2005
Victims on Broadway II
By Daniel Mendelsohn
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams, directed by Edward Hall
at the Roundabout Theatre Company, Studio 54, New York, April 25–July 3, 2005
The heroine of A Streetcar Named Desire is famously alert to the significance of names; 'Blanche DuBois,' as she flirtatiously points out early on in the play, means 'white woods.' ('Like an orchard in spring!') But the most meaningful name in the play may be the one that, unlike that of Blanche or her sister Stella—'Stella for star!'—is never parsed or etymologized by the characters themselves.
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