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What Ought to be Truth

02 Saturday Jun 2018

Posted by la Clarina in Theatre, Things

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A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois, Tennessee Williams, Truth

I’ve always loved to bits this line of Blanche’s from A Streetcar Named Desire:

I don’t want realism. I want magic. Yes, yes – magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don’t tell truth. I tell what ought to be truth.”

Truth, reality, misrepresentation, what ought to be truth… Are we all Blanche, in some way or other, when we tell stories? One of these days I’m going to have a pendant made with this line on it.

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