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February 07 - February 22

1948 PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA
BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
DIRECTED BY PATRICK MICHAEL KELLY

This classic Tennessee Williams show came to the Thigpen Main Stage in 2002, and returns in celebration of our 35th Anniversary.  One of the most renowned plays of the American theater, A Streetcar Named Desire introduces audiences to Blanche DuBois, a schoolteacher from Mississippi. She arrives in New Orleans and takes a streetcar named “Desire” to the French Quarter, where her sister, Stella, and Stella’s husband, Stanley Kowalski, live barely above squalor. Blanche’s affectations of refinement set her immediately at odds with blue-collar Stanley, who is further incensed when he learns his wife’s aristocratic inheritance—the family estate—has been forfeited to creditors. Believing that Blanche has sold the estate for personal profit and is swindling Stella and Stanley from sharing in the proceeds, Stanley disdains and demeans Blanche, who fights back in the only way she knows: with her genteel charm. The Kowalskis’ Elysian Fields apartment becomes a pressure cooker of sensuality and class tensions, until ultimately erupting in some of the most iconic dramatic moments seen on the 20th Century stage.

 

Sponsored by Richland Sertoma Club

 

SHOW TIMES:

Friday, February 7 – 8pm
Saturday, February 8 – 8pm
Sunday, February 9 – 3pm
Thursday, February 13 – 8pm
Friday, February 14 – 8pm
Saturday, February 15 – 8pm
Sunday, February 16 – 3pm
Wednesday, February 19 – 8pm
Thursday, February 20 – 8pm
Friday, February 21 – 8pm
Saturday, February 22 – 8pm

 

CAST & CREW

Marybeth Gorman
Burke Brown
Brittany Hammock
Jason Stokes
Jon Whit McClinton
Shirley McGuinness
Tashera Pravato
Paul Smith
Krista Grevas
Patrick Michael Kelly, Director

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