A Streetcar Named Desire April 1, 2008

This Tennessee Williams play tells the tale of Blanche DuBois, a faded and fragile Southern belle who visits her younger sister Stella, now living in a seedy district of New Orleans. Blanche is near the end of a downhill path in her life, but she comes repeatedly into confrontation with Stella's sexually aggressive husband, Stanley Kowalski, whose coarseness both offends and attracts her educated sensitivity. Tension mounts, and inevitably, a breaking point comes.