Bid To Meet A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE's Gillian Anderson, Support Childreach International
By: Michael Dale May. 11, 2016
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Shortly after making her 1991 Off-Broadway debut in Alan Ayckbourn's ABSENT FRIENDS, Gillian Anderson gained national attention, and an Emmy Award, as FBI special agent Dana Scully on "The X-Files." In between numerous film and television assignments, her theatre work since then has been limited to London stages, but now she's returned to New York with her acclaimed performance as Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Director Benedict Andrews' Young Vic production has transferred to St. Ann's Warehouse for a limited run.
Charitybuzz is now hosting an online auction for two tickets to see Gillian Anderson in A Streetcar Named Desire (Row A, Seats 309 and 310) on Wednesday, May 18th at 7:30pm, with a chance to meet the star after the performance.
Anderson has personally donated these tickets to raise money for Childreach International, a London based organization that seeks to eradicate human trafficking both in the US and abroad. Their ongoing social media campaign is associated with the organization #TaughtNotTrafficked. In March of this year, Anderson spoke on a United Nations panel targeting human trafficking and a film she completed associated with the campaign called SOLD. Visit childreach.org.uk.
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St. Ann's Warehouse presents the American Premiere of director Benedict Andrews' visionary production of the timeless Tennessee Williams masterpiece A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Andrews stages the play in the round, with a revolving set in the center, putting the audience in powerfully close proximity to this "wounding portrait of communal loss" (Matt Wolf, The New York Times).
As Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski, Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster lead an explosive cast. The Guardian called Anderson's award-winning performance "stellar" and The Independent described her as "shatteringly powerful and persuasive" in reviews of the production at the Young Vic. The Times UK deemed Ben Foster "riveting," and Matt Wolf, in The New York Times, said of Foster's performance, "This may in fact be the first Stanley I have come across to erase memories of the part's stage and screen originator, Marlon Brando, for the simple reason that Mr. Foster... renders such comparisons irrelevant by making the role less about the character's pectorals and more about his battered pride."Videos