Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

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Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 12:47pm

"Oscar winner Rachel Weisz is to play Blanche Dubois in a West End version of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Weisz, who won a best supporting actress Oscar in 2006 for The Constant Gardener, will appear on stage in July.

The Tennessee Williams revival will take place at London's Donmar Warehouse and is directed by Rob Ashford. No other cast details have been released.

Weisz was last seen on the London stage in the Almeida's 2001 production of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7768244.stm

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 12:50pm

She's a bit young for it, and I'd never think to put her in that role, but I'd love to see what she'd do with it.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 12:55pm

Someone buy me a plane ticket.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 1:07pm

She's very young, and I have to say I can't picture her in the role.
But I'm sure she'll do fine. She's a great actress.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 1:20pm

She's not TOO young. She just LOOKS too young.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 1:26pm

Wow, I would love to see that. I think she'll be great.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 2:02pm

I read this on EW magazine and she said she was pretty excited and that Blanche is one of her dream roles. Isn't she around the same age as Cate Blanchett who is playing the role in the Australian production?
I wonder if they are getting an all-star cast. Rob Ashford is quite a hot director nowadays.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 2:10pm

Cate Blanchett AND Rachel Weisz both playing Blache next year?! Can we get BOTH productions over here please?!

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 2:10pm

Agreed, they should just alternate the role on Broadway

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 2:15pm

I'd love to see Toni Collette (sp?) in the role.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 5:24pm

It's not like Blanche is 50. She's just always acting younger than her actual age. Weisz is 37, the same age Vivien Leigh was when making the film and only one year younger than Tandy was in the original production. I think she's a wonderful choice.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/6/08 at 9:59pm

Blanche is written to be in her 30s.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/7/08 at 12:59am

I thought the Australian production was eventually going to come to BAM.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/7/08 at 1:06am

It is, next November.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/7/08 at 9:04am

I wonder if this is at the Donmar itself or at the Donmar in the West End, i.e. Wyndham's Theatre, where they're doing a season now. Hope for the latter which is a beautiful theatre with wonderful sight lines. The Donmar home base is a small cramped space with bad sight lines for anyone sitting upstairs - and which always sells out early for starry shows.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/7/08 at 11:07am

It will be at the Donmar itself because the production of Hamlet starring Jude Law is playing the Wyndham through August 22nd.

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/7/08 at 11:58am

Very interesting casting. I would definitely go to see this...Rachel Weisz is a brilliant actress.

Speaking of Donmar, Jude Law as Hamlet should be great. That's the kind of Hamlet I want to see...

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re: Rachel Weisz to Star in West End STREETCAR Revival

Posted: 12/7/08 at 3:53pm

I really like Rachel and am glad to see she'll be tackling this role!

That last MUMMY movie sucked mainly because She wasn't there to save it, and we had no idea what She had been up to!

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