"The little there is belongs to people who have experienced some sorrow."

— Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire

Widely regarded as one of the finest dramatic works of the American stage, A Streetcar Named Desire opened on Broadway in December 1947 winning Tennessee Williams the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. . . . The electrifying drama depicts the mental and emotional demise of the fragile Blanche DuBois, born to a once-wealthy family of Mississippi planters. Forced to seek refuge in the cramped French Quarter one-bedroom apartment of her married sister, Stella, and animalistic brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, the now impoverished Blanche views Stanley as an uncivilized, savage brute and he responds to her disgust with an unforgiving cruelty -- leading to their ultimate confrontation. suu.edu/pva