As the object of Stanley’s desire, Stella here has embraced (and refigured) her own role as commodity; moreover, her words call attention to the audience’s status as consumers, as hungry to possess the performer, to get their “fill” of her–at least until the (performance) time is up. As if she were aware of Williams’s stage directions, Belle Reprieve’s Stella explains to Mitch, “Look, I’m supposed to wander around in a state of narcotized sexuality. That’s my part” (6). Blanche’s visit brings out Stella’s quasi-incestuous revelations of her attraction to her sister, as the two don matching cheerleaders’ outfits and sing about exploring one another’s bodies “under the covers” (14). But we also see the “colored lights” of Streetcar enacted in the moments of passion between Stella and Stanley (doubled in Brechtian fashion by the awareness of many audience members in the original performance that Lois Weaver [Stella] and Peggy Shaw [Stanley] were real-life lovers)–particularly when Stella pulls off Stanley’s ri pped T-shirt as Stanley carries her offstage, thus evoking Marlon Brando’s Stanley in the very moment that the audience’s attention is called to Peggy Shaw’s body. As Elm Diamond puts it, in an often-cited essay on Brechtianism and feminism that has, I think, interesting applications for discussions of queer theater as well, “Brechtian theory imagines a polyvalence - See more at: http://blog.richmond.edu/script_analysis_2010/2010/10/17/some-interesting-reviews-and-analyses/#sthash.lpf06OVk.dpuf