Caedmon is proud to release this archival full-cast recording of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire.
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.
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"Another book that we acted out in my American English class. I didn't have a major part but I remember Blanche so well. I felt so sorry for this woman. The book itself is fantastic. It made me have this urge to read other books by Williams like The Rose Tattoo and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which I admit I have only seen the movie to." — Saige (5 out of 5 stars)
"Another book that we acted out in my American English class. I didn't have a major part but I remember Blanche so well. I felt so sorry for this woman. The book itself is fantastic. It made me have this urge to read other books by Williams like The Rose Tattoo and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which I admit I have only seen the movie to."
" Williams is a master. Nothing more needs to be said. "
" A fascinating story that is far and away more engaging and developed than *The Glass Menagerie*. That said, the last two or four scenes are rushed and make some leaps with regard to character that I don't quite believe. "
" Mooi compact toneelstuk dat zich afspeelt in New Orleans. Gaat in essentie over de (lamentabele) vrouwelijke conditie. Hoofdfiguur Blance is het typevoorbeeld van de neurotische vrouw, Stanley van het alfamannetje. "
" Oh! how I love Blanche and Stanley. "
" Overall i don't really know what I was expecting from this book but it was definitely more. I feel for Blanche although she is delusional and I found her extremely annoying but I think Williams convinced me enough to dislike stanley more because he was such a brute. I would love to see the movie;I am curious to see how Marlon Brando would interpret him . "
" An outstanding play, Williams depicts the cultural collusion of the old and new worlds through his vivid characters. He brings the characters to life, drawing the reader in by igniting all of their senses. A play that is still very relevant today with it's stark and poignant themes, a true classic "
" Love Tennessee Williams... love the complications of the characters and how he paints their characteristics so clearly. There always seems to be a bizarre element involved in the plot that gives his works that signature TW touch. "
" Three stars because I know it's a good play but I never want to be part of it. Way to depressing, and I'm a guy who likes Long Day's Journey Into Night. Blanche is a great character, but everyone else is just mean. Not my cup of tea. "
" Read over and over and over and over... every few years... and then read it again! "
" Young Marlon Brando... Looks delicious with his white T-shirt or no T-shirt at all... :P "
" Amazing how well it holds up. Tennessee Williams is brilliant. "
" Rereading it left me a little disappointed. I see why it is a brilliant piece of literature, but it doesn't do much for me. "
" Blanche is annoying from start to finish, but Williams' realistic writing shows how some people are unable to handle change and also how domestic violence affects Stanley, Stella, and all those who observe it. "A Streetcar Named Desire" is best enjoyed when read aloud. "
" Great dialogue (it seems so real!) and great stage directions. It was hard for me to find a character to sympathize with, however, and thus hard for me to figure out what to take away from it. Another read-through is, therefore, eventually, in order. "
" alright, studied it for love aspects did live up to expectations "
" I want to punch Stanley in his face. With a piranha. That is all. "
" A desperate, haunting play, extremely well written with a distinct voice for each character. With the right actors this could be such a passionate piece. Going to hunt down the film version! "
" I read the play in high school (on my own), then saw the black and white film with Vivienne Leigh and a young Marlin Brando, which helped bring the play to life. Shortly after that, I saw the play at Geva Theater...a good production and by then I was hooked on the story. Stella!!!!! "
" another school book. america in the '50's. it's not pretty, but it's well written. "
" Emotionally crippling. The precarious balance of sympathy I feel for each character is tightroped till the inevitable tumble at the end. "
" Read this play and the emotion in it stuck with me for ages. I used one of Blanche's monologues for an audition for National Youth Theatre. "
" Me and Tennessee Williams just don't get along. Let's just leave it at that. "
" Debauchery, rape, death, jazz, burly brute overly-sexualized men, liquor, pedophilia, secret homosexual pasts, sex, sex, sex, lies, Southern charm, New Orleans, violence, and more sex. "
" It was a good book to read. "
" Oppression. Fear. Sanity. Three things that come to mind when reading this and much like The Glass Menagerie, I loved every scene. I must watch one of the enactments one of these days. "
" I saw the amazing Cate Blanchett play and kept visualising it. "
" One of my new favorites. I love reading play scripts and this one didn't disappoint! Can't wait to see it live. "
" I was barely able to get past the first act. Only read it because of a group that I was a part of at the time. I don't like this play on paper. It's beautiful on stage though. "
" In love with this play. One of my favorites. Dream Role: Stella "
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), born Thomas Lanier 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 at the age of seventy-two.
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