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| - A Streetcar Named Desire is a play by Tennessee Williams which has been adapted into theatrical and television movies (the most famous starring Marlon Brando in 1951) as well as an opera by André Previn. The play opened on Broadway in 1947, and has had many successful revivals.
- Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play about a hundred different things. Reality vs. the imaginary, the old America vs. the new, insanity, abuse, violence, appearances and purity. Most people are familiar with the 1951 movie staring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, and Kim Hunter, which was of course Oscar-tacular. But there have been many adaptations including a made for TV movie starring Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange, an opera and even a ballet. Stuffed full of imagery and complex characters, it may be considered Williams' best known work, and the character of Blanche has been considered the most difficult female role in all of English literature.
- Trapped in a world without time, clocks without glass and condoms without lubrication, there exists a woman. A woman named Blanche DuBois. She’s sexy, sassy and weighs a hundred and forty tons. Oh yes, this is no ordinary back-country gal. This is… ROBO-HO! But I digress. INTO A NEW PARAGRAPH!
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| - Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play about a hundred different things. Reality vs. the imaginary, the old America vs. the new, insanity, abuse, violence, appearances and purity. Most people are familiar with the 1951 movie staring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, and Kim Hunter, which was of course Oscar-tacular. But there have been many adaptations including a made for TV movie starring Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange, an opera and even a ballet. Stuffed full of imagery and complex characters, it may be considered Williams' best known work, and the character of Blanche has been considered the most difficult female role in all of English literature. The plot revolves around Blanche DuBois - a beauty in her youth who has now begun to fade - coming to stay with her pregnant sister Stella in New Orleans. Blanche has lost the women's ancestral home, Belle Reve, due to the financial strain of caring for their dying relatives, and has quit her job as a school teacher due to her nerves. Blanche meets Stella's husband Stanley and the two develop an almost instant disliking. Blanche finds Stanley vulgar and common, while Stanley hates Blanche's continual snobbery, despite the fact she is now just as poor as them. He is also suspicious of his sister-in-law, thinking that Blanche may have cheated Stella out of her share of the inheritance. Throughout the play we start getting glimpses that Blanche is hiding something.
- A Streetcar Named Desire is a play by Tennessee Williams which has been adapted into theatrical and television movies (the most famous starring Marlon Brando in 1951) as well as an opera by André Previn. The play opened on Broadway in 1947, and has had many successful revivals.
- Trapped in a world without time, clocks without glass and condoms without lubrication, there exists a woman. A woman named Blanche DuBois. She’s sexy, sassy and weighs a hundred and forty tons. Oh yes, this is no ordinary back-country gal. This is… ROBO-HO! No one knew where she came from, but they all knew she was destined to become a woman with a mission. In hindsight, a sexually charged robot was a poor choice for use in a story; but Tennessee Williams was an awesome man, and only he could make such an odd idea work. He totally managed to survive a lobotomy. A lob-fucking-otomy! How the hell do you do that? I’ll tell you. He had someone looking over him that day. BLANCHE DuBOIS! (What the hell is with that name?) Upon re-examination of my sources, it would appear it was his sister that survived the lobotomy, not Mr Williams. Still, he was a hardcore, incredibly sexy, bad ass. Rumour has it that he was created when two lumberjacks swung their axes at each other so fast, they literally tore through space and created some sort of singularity type thing. A Schism occurred. Schism was Tennessee Williams’ dad. He had sex with a lot of woman until he found Tennessee’s mum: the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Kentucky was a fine ass woman with thighs up to here. I am not kidding, you would see her and be like “Holy cow bells, I’m going to get me some of that”. But I digress. INTO A NEW PARAGRAPH!
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