★★★★☆Tennessee Williams’s great play has attracted some fine lead performances over the past decade. Gillian Anderson, Maxine Peake and Rachel Weisz are among those who have shredded their nerves as the superannuated Southern belle Blanche DuBois. Yet in her lower-key way, the relatively unknown Kelly Gough stands comparison to all of them. She gives a performance as psychologically true as it is theatrically compelling. When she arrives on stage in Chelsea Walker’s artfully modernised production she carries a single white suitcase.

Source: The Times March 29, 2018 16:02 UTC