South Africa: A Streetcar Named Desire provides a nerve-jangling journey into the human condition

Beautiful as Tennessee Williams’s dialogue is, it’s often what goes unsaid in A Streetcar Named Desire that most deftly captures the tragic ironies of being human. 

Whether it’s the way actor Dylan Janse van Rensburg’s Stanley Kowalski slouches against the furniture, or how he leans over his food like a Neanderthal as if protecting it from some other cave dweller. It’s there in the way he swigs his beers and barks orders across a room. It’s in his loping gait and in the…