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WTF's A Streetcar Named Desire on Audible

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WTF's A Streetcar Named Desire on Audible #1
Posted: 12/3/20 at 10:32am

Their audio production with Audra McDonald and Carla Gugino has been released on Audible. Here is a link: https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Streetcar-Named-Desire-Audiobook/B08NWBDKD3?qid=1607009212&sr=1-7&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_7&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=CBS190GR84Z2P3A380RX

Hope everyone enjoys listening to it!

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WTF's A Streetcar Named Desire on Audible#2
Posted: 12/5/20 at 11:12am

Has anyone listened to this yet? The reviews I've seen have been mostly mixed-to-negative.

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I still don't understand doing these as audio plays....

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WTF's A Streetcar Named Desire on Audible#4
Posted: 12/5/20 at 10:40pm
Shouldn’t audio plays, y’know, be written to be audio plays? Something like a one person show or 36 Questions, where it uses the medium well, instead of a play like STREETCAR, which relies on you looking at the actors?
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Does it include audio descriptions (similar to what blind/visually impaired patrons use when watching a Broadway play/show.)

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I wanted so much for it to be good, but it’s just not. As lyrical as Williams’s writing is, the play is dramatically inert as a radio play. And even though it’s pretty brisk for a production of Streetcar (there’s very little dead air and no pauses to speak of), it feels dreadfully slow.

Pour one out for a production that would have been otherwise incredible to see live.
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I listened to the 5 minute sample and almost fell asleep. Then I watched Carla Gugino’s interview about the piece and she said they recorded it “off camera” with none of the actors being able to see each other. They wanted to see what that “experiment” would yield. ACTORS WHO CANT LOOK AT EACH OTHER WHILE ACTING? I’ll tell you what it yields. A snooze fest.

I think they are assuming that most people know Streetcar well enough that they can shortcut on this. I think it was a misstep.

I hope this gets a proper staging in the future. The cast is amazing.
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I will skip this. The comments made here echo exactly how I felt about the Angels In America audiobook.