The document provides details about Tennessee Williams and his play A Streetcar Named Desire, including biographical information about Williams and his influences, as well as plans for a production of the play including the budget, run dates, ticket prices, details about set, lighting, sound, music, and casting.

1. A STREET CAR NAMED
DESIRE
By: Tennessee Williams
Alisa Howell, Haley Fugate, Jared Justice, Matthew Hill, and Abdulrahman
Alajmi

2. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
• Born in Columbus, Mississippi on March 26, 1911.
• Died on February 25, 1983 in NYC, New York.
• Literary Influences: William Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, William Faulkner,
Thomas Wolfe, Emily Dickinson, and Ernest Hemingway
• Childhood: Many critics and historians note that Williams found inspiration for
much of his writing in his own dysfunctional family.

3. SUMMARY
A Streetcar Named
DESIRE
Desire
By Tennessee Williams

4. PLANS
• Location: on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre
• Budget: $80,000
• Run: August 2015
• Ticket price: $200 Regular Admission; $1000 Balcony Box Tickets; $100 Senior
Citizen Admissions

5. SET

6. SET

7. LIGHTING
• Scene I (very beginning) colored lights
Lights in the streetcar and headlight and light change when Blanche gets off
Eunice & Blanche enter apartment
 Blanche: “Turn that over-light off!”

8. LIGHTING
• Scene X:
Stanley enters apartment
Grotesque shadows appear behind Blanche

9. Blanche DuBois:
• Middle Aged
• High School English Teacher
• Spouse Killed Himself
• Insecure
• Aging
• Southern Belle
• Vain
Scene 1 :
Scene 10:

10. Scene 1:
Stella Kowalski:
• Southern Belle
• Blanches Sister
• Pregnant
• Wife
• Left home to find work
• Married to Stanley

11. Stanley Kowalski:
• WWII Veteran
• Animal Nature
• Raped Blanche
• Factory Part Salesman
• Bad Temper
• Beats Stella

12. Harold Mitchell:
• Poker Player
• Sensitive
• Built
• Wants to settle down
• Like Blanche

13. SOUND
• In our production, Scene One will start with the sound of the streetcar arriving.
• Lighting will also play a very important role in this symbolic scene.

14. SOUND & MUSIC
• Music plays a major role in this play, as it serves as a motif for Blanche, as well as
establishing the mood in the scenes.
• The polka song “Varsouviana” plays and serves as a reminder of Blanche’s instability as she
hears the music playing in her head.

15. SOUND & MUSIC
• The “Blue Piano” is another major musical aspect in the play. (In Scene 1 & 10)
• It expresses the spirit of life in the play.
• A live piano player would be ideal to ensure that the audience understands the
mood.

16. CASTING
• Sarah Paulson as Blanche

17. CASTING
• Lily Rabe as Stella

18. CASTING
• Dylan McDermott as Stanley

19. CASTING
• Zachary Quinto as Mitch