A Streetcar Named Desire March 12, 2009

This Pulitzer prize winning play, set in 1940s New Orleans, concerns the mental and moral disintegration of a former Southern belle, Blanche DuBois. Blanche's neurotic, genteel pretensions are challenged by the harsh realities symbolized by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. However, Blanche's allies, her sister Stella and her love interest, Harold Mitchell, offer her much needed shelter during the time of the storm.