A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by Tennessee Williams which
received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The Broadway production was
directed by Elia Kazan and starred Jessica Tandy, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando,
and Kim Hunter. The drama A Streetcar
Named Desire is often regarded as among the finest plays of the 20th
century, and is generally considered to be Williams' greatest. Ladies and
gentlemen, A Streetcar Named Desire…
Scene one
The exterior of
a two-storey corner building on a street in New Orleans…
Blanche comes
around the corner, carrying a valise. She looks at a slip of paper, then at the
building, then again at the slip and again at the building… She is about five
years older than Stella…
Eunice (finally):
What´s the matter, honey? Are you lost?
Blanche (with
faintly hysterical humour): They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and
then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at –
Elysian Fields!
Eunice: That´s
where you are now.
Blanche: At
Elysian Fields?
Eunice: This
here is Elysian Fields.