Free-Rain Theatre Company presents A Street Car named Desire – Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Image: Free-Rain Theatre Company.
When Blanche unexpectedly visits her estranged sister Stella, she brings with her a past that will threaten their future. As Stella’s husband Stanley sees through her façade, Blanche’s fragile world begins to fracture. Reality and illusion collide and a violent conflict changes their lives forever.
Following their acclaimed production of Speaking in Tongues, Free-Rain Theatre Company returns in 2024 with one of the most influential plays of the twentieth century.
The play is set in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1947 – the same year the play was written. “Streetcar is a thicket of internal wars”. The complexity, the ambivalence and the unexpectedness of the characters draw us to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’.
Williams’ ability to create a duality that plagues his characters, the intimation that a potentially destructive life beats just beneath the surface. The ambiguity of the attraction and repulsion, the fear and the love – all present a really stimulating challenge.
Written by Tennesee Williams and directed by Anne Somes.
An amateur production by arrangement with ORiGiN™Theatrical, on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. – A Concord Theatricals Company.
CONTENT WARNINGS: This production contains coarse language, mature themes and depictions of domestic abuse and sexual violence.
The details
What: A Street Car Named Desire
When: Wednesday 19 June to Saturday 29 June
Where: ACT Hub, 14 Spinifex St, Kingston ACT 2604
Cost: Adult $42 / Under 30 $30 / Concession $36. Bookings through Free-Rain Theatre Company.
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