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Research on existing directors 

 

 

1) Elizabeth Lecomple 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) Peter Brook 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research on Street Car named Desire

 

A Street Car named desire is a play written in 1942 by American playwright Tennesee Wiliams and won a pulitzer prize for literature in 1948. The play conveys the turbulent confrontation between traditional values in the American South set against the rough-edged, agressive materialism of the new world. A streetcar named desire was developed from Tennessee's real life relationships and experiences. The play illustrates the morbid, shuddering preoccupation with the physical ugliness and the inevitability of death this is shown through the character of Blanche who is very self-absorbed, admiration seeking, elegant.

Tennessee Williams plays that were written in the 1940s and 50s were pretty sucsessful as they offered violence, morality, spectacle and romance in an American setting. His plays often included characters that managed to be both individual and entertaining on stage as well as characters that were representative of particular aspects of American life and tradition at the time. The play focuses on how the act of fleeting always becomes an act of relieving the past. 

 

The play focuses on the conflict between Blanche and her sisters husband Stanley. This symbolises the conflict between two contrasting ways of life. The old civilization vested in Blanche is fine however her only means of survival in the modern world is to focus on the problems of her sister and her husband and avoiding her own in order to live off their emotional, physical and material resources like a decorative fungus. Stanley on the other hand is described as anamalistic, agressive, virile energy and secrely intrigued by the once privileged gentility of the old world associated with febrile femininty. The plot begins setting a calming and hopeful atmosphere as the audience is indroduced to the characters and their personalities however as the play goes on the audience is able to identify with the decay and destruction really present in the lifes of the characters. As the play goes on the audience gains a growing awareness of the charectars past and see how the issues they never delt with or accepted rise to the surface and erupt explosively into the present, this is evident in the fight between Blanche and Stanley when he reveals his knowledge of Blanche being forced to leave Laurel as a result of her seducing one of her students.

 

Main Characters

Blanche DuBois

Stella Kowalski 

Stanley Kowalski

Harold “Mitch” Mitchell

Eunice 

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