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The well known classic – A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams should need no introduction. However, just in case you have been living on a different planet since the first stage play in 1947 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York, (where it closed in 1949 after 855 performances) and the many incarnations that followed, here is basically what it is about------life, death, reality, fantasy, domestic violence, the plight of women, and how our society deals (or doesn’t deal) with these issues. The plot itself is extremely simple. Blanche DuBois, a former Southern Belle, leaves her privileged background to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister and brother-in-law. It is not this simple plot, but the excursion into the characters, society and the times in which they lived that makes us squirm. Maybe this is why the play has had such a long life. It is always relevant. |
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