A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose last desperate grasp at happiness is violently destroyed. It shot Marlon Brando to fame in the role of Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian, the brutishly sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blanche’s tragedy.