A Streetcar Named Desire
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM: January 25 (includes Opening Night reception), January 26, February 1, 2, 8, and 9, 2002.
Sunday Matinee at 2:30 PM: February 3, 2002.
The February 2 performance will be sign interpreted for the deaf and hearing impaired .
Single ticket prices: $12 (Saturdays), $10 (adults, Fridays and Sundays), $8 (senior citizens and students, Fridays and Sundays).
The inevitable conflict of character between two very different human beings. The delicate, romantic, genteel Southern belle, Blanche DuBois, struggling desperately to hold onto the past is in stark contrast to the crude, brutish, no-nonsense Stanley Kowalski, resentful and intolerant of Blanche’s affections. Tennessee Williams throws these two together in the steamy hotbed of New Orleans in the 1940s. The result is one of the most hypnotic, riveting, and exciting pieces of American drama ever produced. Blanche is a true tragic heroine in that her poetic, illusionistic world is destroyed by the harsh world of Stanley, her self-described “executioner.” If the Stanleys of the world take over, “an irreversible downward spiral would begin.”
Directed by Andy Regiec; produced by Lindsay Petersen.
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.
Snapshots of the production, courtesy of Chris Schweitzer. More images in the scrapbook, courtesy of Robert Knight.
The Tenesseee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival will be held March 20 through 24, 2002. Williams is the subject of a story from PBS’s Online NewsHour archives. You can take a virtual ride on the Desire streetcar line!
The text of A Streetcar Named Desire is available for online purchase, in association with Amazon.com.
