A tram named Desire
a tram named Désir ( has Streetcar Named Desire ) is a part of Tennessee Williams, played for the first time in 1947, and for which it gained the Prix Pulitzer in 1948.
Synopsis
Tempting and mysterious, Blanche Dubois finds his sister, Stella Kowalski, which knows a miserable life. Between the two women, there is Stanley Kowalski, husband of Stella, frustrated and violent one. Stanley will do everything to bore the secrecies of White and to push it towards the madness…
Adaptations
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1951 : the film a tram named Desire ( has Streetcar Named Desire ) by Elia Kazan. It is this film which revealed Marlon Brando with the cinema.
- 1995: the opera a tram named Desire by Andre Previn.
See too
Endstation Amerika of Frank Castorf
Simple: In Streetcar Named Desired