Come Ride that "Streetcar Named Desire"

The Greenwood Little Theatre presents A Streetcar Named Desire, the classic drama by the inimitable Mr. Tennessee Williams. With director Bobby Vandevender at the helm and a strong and talented group of actors under his expert tutelage, the shows are sure to be sensational.

Mark July 6,7,8, and 9 on your calendars (Thursday-Saturday evenings and a Sunday afternoon matinee).

This enthralling theatrical masterpiece explores the tragic predicament of Blanche DuBois (Connie Black), a woman whose life has been undermined by romantic illusions, causing her to reject the harsh realities of life and to retreat into a sort of dream-world existence of magic and imagination.

A high school English teacher from Laurel, Mississippi who has been fired for getting mixed up with a seventeen-year-old boy, Blanche--having nowhere else to go--arrives in New Orleans to stay with her little sister, Stella (R.D. Seawright), in the two-room French Quarter apartment that Stella shares with her husband, Stanley Kowalski (Justin Bixler).

The conflict that ensues concerns the primitive, animalistic Stanley and the cerebral and fragile Blanche, with Stella caught in the middle. Stella's love for her common husband and their fiercely passionate and sexually-charged marriage leads Blanche to believe Stella has abandoned her aristocratic southern upbringing at the family plantation, Belle Reve, which has recently been lost on a mortgage.

This is a play of perpetual contrasts between light and dark, present and past, reality and illusion, desire and death. Blanche struggles to cleanse herself of a tortured and scandalous past and seems initially to find salvation in Stanley's friend, Mitch (Stacey Joiner), who ultimately rejects her. When Stanley forces himself on Blanche in a dramatic rape scene while Stella is at the hospital delivering her baby, Blanche is sent over the edge into a downward spiral of madness and mayhem.

Though Streetcar is a deeply dramatic and often intense performance, Steve and Eunice come to the rescue with several scenes of hilarious comic relief. The Creole couple who live upstairs from Stanley and Stella, they are the quintessential French Quarter characters who carry on in ways that are sure to keep the audience in stitches.

The play will be presented in three acts with two intermissions, during which time red beans and rice, hurricanes, and other distinctly New Orleans fare will be served to patrons. So please come out and support a cast, crew and director who have worked extremely hard to make this an electrically entertaining production.

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Thomas Gregory said…
Red beans and rice? Hurricanes? I'll be there! Oh and I guess it's cool that you're in it too...
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