A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams and intro by Arthur Miller
It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue
to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years
after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire
is one of those plays.
The story famously recounts how the faded and
promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and
brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the
careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden,
and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most
important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia
Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the '40s and '50s.
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