FOURBLOKES take the streetcar to Derby…
Derby Guildhall Theatre
November 17th - 20th
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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 will present 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.
Streetcar and its stars were so renowned that some theatre companies wouldn't stage it for fear of unflattering comparisons!
With 3 NODA Best Play awards in the last 4 years FOURBLOKES have no such fears and their new production will provide new interpretation and accessibility for modern audiences. This is a theatrical event NOT to be missed!
A Streetcar Named Desire runs in Derby through November 17 – 20, and audiences at The Guildhall will have a rare chance to find out for themselves why this old streetcar still possesses such Rolls Royce eminence after more than sixty years.
Education Pack now 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 eduction pack for A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.
Education Pack in PDF format. Click Here.
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