A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” portrays several summer days in the suburbs of New Orleans, days filled with alcohol, music, and passion. The characters are thirty-somethings, average “average” individuals trying to survive in a world without money and with no clear prospects. Their fate changes with the arrival of the mysterious Blanche. Out of necessity, she must move into her sister Stella’s apartment. Will her husband, Stanley Kowalski, a second-generation immigrant, come to terms with the arrival of an uninvited tenant? Beneath this somewhat comedic, somewhat vulgar plot, worlds collide. Old values are fading, new ones are yet to be formed. When nothing is certain, order crystallizes around power. A lazy day unleashes demons.