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FOURBLOKES are thrilled to announce they are bringing this contemporary classic to Derby this Autumn.
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Winner of the 1988 Lawrence Oliver Award
Winner of the 1988 BBC 'Drama of the Year' Award
Winner of the 1991 Tony Award for 'Best Play'
Winner of the 1991 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for 'Best Foreign Play'
Venue: Derby Guildhall Theatre
Dates: November 16th - 19th
Performances commence at 7.30pm with a matinee performance on November 17th at 2.00pm
Based on a true story, set in Australia 1789. An infant civilisation, a young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and a leading lady who may be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal...
Brutal, moving and funny, Our Country's Good questions the role of theatre, or indeed any art, in a society with seemingly more important things to worry about
Fourblokes Theatre Company breathes new life into Timberlake Wertenbaker’s seminal play.
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FOURBLOKES took the Streetcar to Derby last season…and bagged their fourth 'Best Drama Award'.
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The streetcar is the legend that is A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams' acclaimed blockbuster that is 62 years old this autumn.
This award winning play is crammed with passion and tension that build from the first, as Stanley Kowalski meets Blanche DuBois in sultry New Orleans.
FOURBLOKES presented the latest of more than 25,000 productions of this classic drama since it opened on Broadway in 1947.
That opening was a signal event in the American theatre and marked the Broadway debut of Marlon Brando. His character, Stanley, is a macho, hard drinking, card-playing "gaudy seed-bearer" who "sizes women up at a glance." Stanley is the husband of Stella, and her older sister is Blanche DuBois - a delicate but fading beauty - with a penchant for lying about her not so pretty past…
The play won a Pulitzer Prize for Tennessee Williams in 1948, and, unsurprisingly, his plays are the most performed of any American playwright. Williams was delighted with the performance of Marlon Brando, who went on to star in the film version of Streetcar, which came out in 1951. Vivian Leigh played Blanche on the screen and won an Academy Award.
A Streetcar Named Desire ran in Derby through November 17 – 20.
Streetcar Education Pack still freely available for download
Following the successful use of our educations pack for Dennis Potter's 'Blue Remembered Hills' and Tim Firth's Neville's Island, please find a link below to our free education pack for A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.
Education Pack in PDF format. Click Here.
