A Streetcar Named Desire
Streetcar Named Desire, A Author: Tennessee Williams
First Performance: 1947, New York
Published: 1947
Genre: Drama in 11 scenes
Setting: Kowalskis' apartment and street outside, New Orleans, mid-20th c.
Cast: 6m, 6f
Blanche Dubois, an English teacher, comes to stay with her sister Stella and her husband Stanley Kowalski, of Polish descent, who live in a poor neighbourhood of New Orleans full of the sounds of jazz. To reach the area, Blanche has taken a ‘streetcar named Desire’. Fussing about her looks, she tells Stella that she left schoolteaching because of a nervous breakdown. Stanley is very brusque with Blanche, especially when he learns that her family has lost their southern estate through mismanagement. At a poker game that evening, Blanche is attracted to Harold Mitchell (‘Mitch’) and flirts...
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