What would happen if Tennessee Williams’s famous character/alter ego Blanche DuBois lived through Hurricane Katrina and had to sleep in the Superdome?

Mark Sam Rosenthal sets to find out in this comic, tragic, campy and politically incorrect solo show that was a New York International Fringe Festival hit!

BLANCHE SURVIES KATRINA!

 

Last summer after the festival run, writer  David Sheward said, " Mark Sam Rosenthal, who wrote this sharp solo show and plays Blanche, has given his heroine three dimensions. Though she is a derivative figure, often quoting Tennessee Williams' original dialogue, Rosenthal's Blanche has compassion, courage, and an indomitable will to survive.

He performs her as a complete person, not just a drag creation. Rosenthal captures the style of his original script with delightful embellishments on contemporary events. The Superdome, where hurricane victims were housed, is described as "a refuge of last resort." Blanche pretentiously pronounces the federal relief agency FEMA with a French accent, because doing so makes it sound as if "our tax dollars have never been as magically at work."

This Blanche is both a loving tribute to a dazzling character and an unforgiving political commentary!

 

SoHo Playhouse

15 Vandam St (between Sixth Ave and Varick St)

212-691-1555     Tickets: $30
Sundays 7pm ,  Thursdays 9pm ,  Fridays 9pm ,  Saturdays 3pm, 9pm . Through Mar 15th


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