Following his 2019 production of A Raisin in the Sun, celebrated as "an absorbing, watershed revival," by The New York Times, Robert O’Hara returns to Williamstown Theatre Festival to direct this Tennessee Williams masterpiece. With Emmy, Grammy, and six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald as Blanche DuBois alongside Carla Gugino as Stella, O’Hara takes a fresh and visceral look at the emotionally charged relationship between these two iconic sisters. Haunted by her past, Blanche seeks refuge with Stella and Stanley (Ariel Shafir) in New Orleans, where she wrestles with the nature of her sister’s husband, her sister’s denial, and her own unraveling mind.

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2 hours and 52 minutes
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Tennessee Williams
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3 December 2020
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English
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Audible Originals
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B08NWCBGCQ
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Listening Length	2 hours and 52 minutes
Author	Tennessee Williams
Narrator	Carla Gugino, Audra McDonald
Audible.com.au Release Date	03 December 2020
Publisher	Audible Originals
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Original recording
Language	English
ASIN	B08NWCBGCQ
Best Sellers Rank	138,129 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 133 in Broadway & Musicals (Books) 959 in Entertainment & Performing Arts 273,659 in Textbooks & Study Guides

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Dina Jones

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Reviewed in Australia on 17 October 2015

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Brilliant play!

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Ninaminacat

A demanding and satisfying read which will make you want to see the play performed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 March 2018

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What a vibrant strong play which conjures up the sights, sounds and atmosphere of New Orleans so vividly even when just reading it, rather than experiencing it in the theatre!

I love the attention to detail in the set and costumes, clearly matching the visuals to the characters, as can be seen from the description of Stanley's and Stella's apartment at the beginning of Scene Three: "Over the yellow linoleum of the kitchen table hangs an electric bulb with a vivid green glass shade. The poker players – STANLEY, STEVE, MITCH, and PABLO – wear coloured shirts, solid blues, a purple, a red-and-white check, a light green, and they are men at the peak of their physical manhood, as coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colours." The menace of the sexual tension between Stanley and Blanche coming to fruition is as clear from the details of the set as it is in the dialogue; even the name Blanche contrasts with the vibrant colours in which Stanley likes to dress. When first performed in 1947 the play must have been startling in so many respects: musically, visually and in terms of content since it deals with class, domestic violence, alcohlism, homosexuality, prostitution, rape and mental illness. Any one of these on its own would have caused a stir in the late 1940s but to include elements of all these topics was an incredibly bold move on Williams' part.

The play has sufficient depth to benefit from a second reading to more fully appreciate the complexities of the plot and characters, particularly Blanche, Stanley, Stella and Mitch.

I liked the Penguin edition's preface by Arthur Miller, a contemporary of Tennessee Williams, which helped to demonstrate Williams's audacity in breaking the mould of the expected Broadway play and set it in the context of its time.

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Alan Dodsley

Not quite what I expected!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 April 2019

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I’ve never seen the play, or read the book, but am aware of it as one of the great novels/plays of our times. So when I saw it on sale in Amazon’s Kindle books, thought I’d buy it and see what all the fuss is about. However, I was expecting a novel rather than a screenplay, and reading it in this format spoiled it for me. An enjoyable enough read, but would have preferred a straightforward book.

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JONATHAN STUART-BROWN

If part of their school syllabus, then get this for your child. Note it is a stage play NOT A NOVEL.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2021

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If this is a set part of your child's school syllabus for GCSE or A Level, then get this for them. It will help them. You may also want to get a set of notes for probable exam questions and model answers with character and theme analysis as well. York Notes are very reliable and available on amazon.
For the casual leisure reader or as a gift for someone to read, Please note it is a theatre stage play and not a novel. Make sure you want to read the stage play not a novel.
IMHO this material for leisure is not my cup of tea even though the writer is supremely talented. I much prefer more Biblical, happier, feelgood, just, happy, cosy reads. This stage play was brutally shocking in its day in the 1940s and still brutally shocking. Although I have taught English in UK schools and to over a hundred nationalities, I am not a fan of UK government and exam board set novels. But if your child has to study it, then it will help perform better in class and in exam.

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Roman Clodia

Claustrophobic and tense

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 December 2020

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What a wonderfully claustrophobic and poisonous play! This is a brutal indictment of post-war American culture which deals with domestic violence, rape (?) and emotional abuse, as well as the illusions and delusions that enable the latter - which also, ironically, may sustain women in the face of a cruel world. Faded Blanche is the catalyst and most obvious victim but Stella left me anxious, too.

Full of anger, desire, tension, smouldering but risky sexuality, subtle critiques of class, race and gender stereotypes - and set against a vibrant New Orleans background, which also becomes the source of Blanche's hallucinations, this makes fantastic use of a closed set which foregrounds how dangerous domestic proximity may be.

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Maggie S

A Street Car Named Desire (Modern version)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2019

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This is the Play version of the film. Suitable for those doing English at A Level. The play was staged at Birmingham but not every pupil got the chance to travel so far to see it.

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