A STREETCAR
NAMED DESIRE
- Tennessee Williams

“When she got there she met the brute Stan, and the side of New Orleans she hardly knew existed."

Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans, during the restless years following World War Two.

During the restless years following World War Two, Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning play pits the refined but deluded Blanche Dubois, a neurotic, faded Southern belle against her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, the personification of modern practicality, crudeness, cynicism, and brutality. A play of passion and tension that builds to an explosive climax, Streetcar premiered on Broadway in 1947 catapulting its male lead, Marlon Brando, to stardom, and his "method"style of acting to national prominence. The 1951 film version scooped 3 acting Oscars.

This play is presented by special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA.