A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
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A Streetcar Named Desire

Author: Tennessee Williams

Narrator: Theater Lincoln Center

Abridged: 2 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Caedmon

Published: 01/06/2009

Synopsis

Caedmon is proud to release this archival full-cast recording of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire on cd for the first time! Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella's New Orleans apartment seeking refuge from a troubled past—but her ethereal spirit irks Stella's husband, the loutish Stanley Kowalski. Crudely, relentlessly, he unmasks the lies and delusions that sustain Blanche, until her frail hold on reality is shockingly severed.This atmospheric recording of Tennessee Williams's powerful classic stars Rosemary Harris and James Farentino as Blanche and Stanley—roles they performed to acclaim in a smash revival at New York's Lincoln Center.

About Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi won Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Other plays include The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth and Night of the Iguana. He also wrote a number of one-act plays, short stories, poems and two novels, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Moishe and the Age of Reason. He died in 1983 at the age of 72.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on February 11, 2023

BLAAAAANCHE! Pregnant Stella DuBois and common Stanley Kowalski live a tumultuous yet content and passionate life in a shabby two-room flat in New Orleans. That is until one day Stella’s older sister Blanche unexpectedly arrives with her belongings to spend some time. Her refined manners and extra......more

Goodreads review by emma on May 22, 2018

Whoa. I did not consume this play as I was intended to. I mean, honestly, you're not supposed to read a play. Tell that to any high school English teacher ever, but still. Tennessee Williams didn't write this like "Hopefully in sixty years a girl will read this alone in her room in one sitting so she......more

Goodreads review by Lea on October 23, 2022

A Streetcar Named Desire is a play set in New Orleans, from a period of social realism that could be described as a modern tragedy. The play follows two main protagonists, Blanche, and Stanley, husband of Blanche's sister Stella in a complex domestic conflict. The play is set in a period post-Great......more

Goodreads review by Candi on April 04, 2016

4.5 stars Tragic, raw, and suffused with striking imagery and symbolism, this play is a must-read and now one that I must also see. Williams does a tremendous job of evoking the atmosphere of New Orleans during the 1940's – the music, the heat, the people. The prose is lyrical and truly astonishing a......more

Goodreads review by Elle on May 07, 2018

Okay, first of all, may I just say: you should see the movie before you read the book. The thing about this play is that it absolutely relies on tension. And that tension is absolutely there in a quality rendition of this show. But it is not conveyed on page. Likewise, most of Blanche’s characte......more

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