A Streetcar Named Desire: Benedict Andrews gives Blanche and Stanley a twist
Australian stage director Benedict Andrews certainly likes to put a new spin on the classics. Working internationally, in opera as well as theatre, he's pitched Caligula into a sports stadium and produced Chekhov's Three Sisters on a stage of tables that were gradually removed from around the actors, leaving the sisters stranded on a Beckettian earth mound. He spliced Shakespeare's history plays into one epic 10-hour…