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23. Mira, our favorite performances this time were the Scottish Ballet performance of Streetcar

Fri May 29, 2015, 11:37 PM

May 2015

and the Romeo and Juliet.

They gave Blanche a back story in the ballet: a young husband who has an affair
with a gay lover and then kills himself. She turns to prostitution (to try and hold on
to the family plantation), then heads for New Orleans and the original story from the
play resumes. Of course the dead husband creates lots of haunting memories for
Blanche--and the opportunity for some marvelous pas de deux. We really enjoyed it.

This is the second time we've seen a marvelous Shakespeare production at Spoleto--but
we only started coming in 2012. We heard people tonight--sitting behind us--talking about
the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream from two years ago. It was so creative!

I looked in to getting here on the train. We might do it next time, since it only takes about an hour
more than our drive time from Chapel Hill. We were slowed down by two horrible accidents on 95 this
time--one fatal--and I really hate flying any more.

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