Ulster Tatler – June 2019

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the scene

A StreetcAr

nAmed deSire

Guests were welcomed to the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, recently
for the opening night of A Streetcar Named Desire, the
Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams. Directed
by Irish Times Theatre Award-winning director, Emma Jordan,
A Streetcar Named Desire follows wilting Southern beauty,
Blanche DuBois (portrayed by Aoibhéann McCann), as she
attempts to escape her former life and past trauma. But as
details of Blanche’s past come to light, she incurs suspicion
and wrath, and her sense of reality begins to shatter. The
play runs until 8 June 2019. Select photography courtesy of
Johnny Frazer.

Maria McAllister, Bernadette Sexton, playwright James Skivington,
Mary English, Mary Kearney and Elizabeth Connaughton.

Shraddha Parchani and Hollie Morrison.

Will Corrie, Zoe Salmon and Joe Salmon.

Tracey Kernaghan, Alex Kernaghan and Zara Palmer.

Simone Collins and Sophie Robinson.

Stella McCusker (Blanche DuBois at the Lyric in 1985) with

Aoibhéann McCann (current Blanche DuBois at the Lyric).

Deputy Lord Mayor Emmet

McDonough-Brown and Geri Wright.

Conor and Colette Maguire. Mrs O’Hara and Seamus O’Hara (Harold ‘Mitch’ Mitchell).