Characters
This fragile Southern woman arrives in New Orleans to stay with her sister.
Blanche Dubois
The city where the play takes place.
New Orleans
Stanley throws this out the window in scene three.
This American dramatist wrote A Streetcar Named Desire.
Tennessee Williams
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Blanche
Stella’s husband, known for his aggression and poker nights.
Stanley Kowalski
The name of Blanche’s lost family plantation.
Belle Reve
The game Stanley and his friends play the night Blanche meets Mitch.
Poker
This is the birth name of the playwright better known as Tennessee Williams, famous for A Streetcar Named Desire.
Thomas Lanier Williams
"Remember what Huey Long said--"Every man is a king!" And I am the king around here, so don't forget it!"
Stanley
Blanche’s sister who chose Stanley over her old life.
Stella
The streetcar Blanche takes before arriving at Elysian Fields.
Desire
Blanche was kicked out of this establishment for entertaining too many different suitors
Hotel Flamingo
Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Streetcar and this 1955 play about Brick and Maggie.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"Oh, I knew you weren't sixteen anymore. But I was a fool enough to believe you was straight."
Mitch
Blanche’s gentle love interest who lives with his sick mother.
Mitch
This recurring music represents Blanche’s trauma and memories.
Polka Music
Mitch takes Blanche on an unsuccessful date here.
This earlier play by Williams won him major success before Streetcar and centers on Amanda Wingfield
The Glass Menagerie
"I shall die of eating an unwashed grape one day out on the ocean."
Blanche
The newspaper collector Blanche flirts with.
Young Man
Stanley Kowalski's Astrological Sign
Capricorn
Stanley announces this card game variation at the end of the play.
Seven-card stud
Where did Williams receive a BA in English from?
University of Iowa
"Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you've got to keep on going."
Eunice