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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
6 Men, 6 Women
Author of (a selection): Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, The Long Goodbye, The Night of the Iguana, Orpheus Descending, Sweet Bird of Youth.
The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bios, a women whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject so far as possible the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores.
The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely normal young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self delusion, and in the end to madness.
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