"After a most successful run at venues in Ireland, the Keegan group is presenting this masterful play at the Church Street Theater  and they have a masterful cast doing the dramatic honors.  Kerry Waters has never been finer as she interprets Blanche on the borderline of a prissy English teacher yet with a bipolar perversity underlying her Southern belle.  Her description of her husband's suicide was totally chilling and heart-rendering.  Certainly she deserves an acting nomination for her fully rounded and succinctly dilineated characterization of this fascinating stage presence.  Susan Marie Rhea proves to be an exceptional sister, Stella, with complete understanding but managing an occasional and necessary spitfire to try to control the conflict between Stella with Stanley. Of course, always most dependable in earthy characterizations, Mark Rhea's Stanley is wonderfully menacing while still attracting empathy from the audience as he realizes that Blanche is a total threat to his Polish/American home.   Eric Lucas gives a prized performance by developing a sympathetic Southern character with a slight bumpkin mien but far removed from previous actors who were simply imitators of Karl Malden in the role of Mitch.  Others in the cast who gave a wonderful sense of a decaying New Orleans included Jennifer Richter, Rich Montgomery, Joe Baker, Carol Baker, Mike Kozemchak, Joy Kingsley-Ibeh, Mike Innocenti and Rebecca Shogren.  ....  Put this show definitely on your must-see list as it may well be the finest over all previous productions."--Bob Anthony

 

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