Most certainly a classic play! (The Streetcar named Desire - Tennessee Williams)

Member Name: Craigonnavitch

Product:	The Streetcar named Desire - Tennessee Williams
Date:	19/12/00 (108 review reads)
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Advantages: Brilliant use of music and lighting throughout.

Disadvantages: None.

Being a literature student, I have studied this play in some depth. It is cear that this play is original, with genuine exoticism submersing a very deep plot.
A complicated play calling on the use of music and lighting with devastating effect, as the stage directions have startling clarity about them with William's descibing everything to the smallest detail possible.
The scene is set in a quite poor quarter in the middle of New Orleans, conviniently the 'home' of jazz, making the use of music all the more believable. The main characters are effectively Stanley and Stella Kowalski, Harrold 'Mitch' Mitchell and, as the blurb on the book says, "the fading southern belle" Blanche Du Bois, who is Stella's sister. The book is a rollercoaster throughout, as the sanity of Blanche gradually slips away, because she is haunted by the past, and the actions of Stanley, a common as muck, 'polak'.
This play is a masterpiece for the fact that the plot is both original and believable, as the play is certainly an insight into what America was more than likely like at the time of the play. If you enjoy play's, you should endeavor to read or see the play.

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