This Pulitzer prize-winning winner of four academy awards set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following World War II envelops an environment which evokes not so much a specific time and place in American culture as an almost nostalgic apparition of that past, in which a faded Southern belle, who too obviously stands for ante-bellum gentility, is crushed by the forces of a brutal if vital immigrant future.

Director Dan Pruitt successfully personifies the modern practicality, crudeness, cynicism, brutality, childlike helplessness, romantic yearnings, and pretensions of Streetcar through his four multi-dimensional main characters and the taut dramatic situations in which they are enmeshed. His efforts intelligently depict the lies we all need to sustain our precarious existence in this world.

the Cast:

Stella Kowalski - Jessica Warren

Stanley Kowalski - John Marsh

Blanche BuBois- Lisa Lacy-Avery

Harold Mitchell (Mitch) - Jason Smith

Steve Hubbell - Mike Pruitt

Eunice Hubbell - Susan Loftin

Pablo Gonzales - Rod Chamberlain

A young Collector and Doctor - Tim Stanley

Nurse - Betty Ratcliffe

Mexican Woman - Helen McMahon

Behind the Scenes:

Director - Dan Pruitt

Assistant Director/Stage Manager - Ann Kinnebrew

Produced by - Meyer Birnbaum

Box Office - Elizabeth Hunt, Sue Green

Costumes - Sue Green, Nancy Johnson, Audrey Phillips

Props - Entire cast and crew

Sound & Lights - Jason Smith, Richard Scott & Chad Avery

Set Design - Dan Pruitt

Publicity - Mike Lacy & Susanne Lee

Playbill Design - John Fritchie

Cover Art - Dan Pruitt

Fundraising & Playbill Ad Sales - Joe Webb & Elaine Owen

Set Construction - Bill Marsh, Al Youmans, Bill Jefferson & Joe Webb

Volunteer Coordination - Helen McMahon

a streetcar named desire

by Tennessee Williams

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