Directed by Artistic Director Lauren Caldwell, this production promises to be a runaway success with Hippodrome audiences, in the manner of last season's mega-hit, To Kill A Mockingbird. A Streetcar Named Desire is the timeless story of the inevitable conflict of character between two very different human beings. The delicate, romantic, genteel southern belle Blanche DuBois, struggling desperately to hold on to the past is in stark contrast to the crude, brutish, no-nonsense Stanley Kowalski, resentful and intolerant of Blanche's affectations. Tennessee Williams throws these two together in the steamy hotbed of New Orleans in the 1940s. The result is one of the most hypnotic, riveting and exciting pieces of American drama ever produced. Director Lauren Caldwell says of the play: "Blanche DuBois is a true tragic heroine in that her poetic, illusionistic world is destroyed by the harsh world of Stanley Kowalski, her self-described 'executioner'. Tennessee Williams once wrote, ' ... if the Stanleys of the world take over ... an irreversible downward spiral would begin'. The antidote for the audience as well as for Blanche is art. Art makes the world flesh so that Blanche and the audience alike can bear the pains of life."

By Tennessee Williams