A Streetcar Named Desire

i don'' t want realism. i want magic! Blanche DuBois the insecure promiscuous archetypal Southern belle has lost her ancestral estate. But she hasn'' t lost her pretence. Penniless she comes to stay with her sister and barbaric brother-in-law Stella and Stanley Kowalski. Contemptuous of their two-room apartment in the working-class neighbourhood of New Orleans Blanche is met with hostility from Stanley who attempts everything to unveil her deceptions. What happens as the conflict between them increases? Will Blanche'' s fantasies and illusions win over her reality? Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Tennessee Williams'' A Streetcar Named Desire is a classic work of social realism. Counted among the finest plays of the twentieth century it has been adapted into multiple art forms including ballet and opera.