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"This play has haunted
my heart for years, and
I promise you a visionary
view of williams' savagely
poetic world," says
Director Jon Kretzu."
This will be like no
Tennessee Williams you
have ever seen."



Recommended for
mature high school and college students. Mature themes, language, some nudity and frequent smoking (herbal cigarettes).



Continuing a tradition of radically redefined classics, Associate Artistic Director Jon Kretzu re-imagines this classic tail of love, brute strength, and madness through the memories of a now-institutionalized Blache DuBois. Changing not a word of Williams' powerful text, Kretzu will have you questioning everything you think you know about Stella, Stanley and Blanche, while keeping you in touch with the tender, ever-beating heart of the play's emotional core. Experience this American masterpiece again for the first time and find yourself talking about it long after the lights go down.
 

Between 1903 and 1933, the number of patients confined to psychiatric institutions in the United States more than doubled, from 143,000 to 366,000.

Tennesee Williams's sister Rose was hospitalized for schizophrenia, a fact which haunted him throughout his carreer.

 



    Streetcar opens as Blanche DuBois
    arrives in New Orleans to visit her
    sister, Stella. to get to her seedy
   apartment, she has to take a streetcar
   named Desire. The Desire line served
   the bar and nightclub section of the
   French Quarter along Bourbon Street,
  and the shopping district along Royal
  Street. The last Desire streetcar
  ran the line on May 30, 1948.

 

SPONSORED BY: Carol Wallace