Take a streetcar to the Blue Room

Fantasy imagination, realism and lies collide in Tennessee Williams’ enduring classic of American playwriting, A Streetcar Named Desire. 

The Asylum Players will be presenting the play – often lauded as one of the best ever written – at The Blue Room from October 16-18 and 23-25.

The Players will transport the audience to 1950s New Orleans where Blanche DuBois a fading southern belle, arrives at the home of her sister, Stella, and her animalistic husband Stanley, under a cloud of intrigue and deception. 

A short visit turns into weeks and then months. Tensions flair in the hot southern climate. 

Stephen Gillard, Artistic Director of The Blue Room and Asylum Players said: “I absolutely love to take a piece as intense and claustrophobic as Streetcar and put it on The Blue Room stage.
“This is a hot, violent, close world that Williams has created. Blanche, Stanley and Stella are such iconic characters and we wanted to explore who actually is the insane member of that trio. The fantasist Blanche, with her lies and sordid past; the realist Stanley with his destructive temper and violent passions; or Stella the pragmatist, who tries to keep the peace without ever truly realising there’s a war being enacted and she’s already picked a side. 

The themes of sanity versus insanity, realism versus fantasy, truth versus lies, collide through the characters of Blanche, Stanley and Stella.”

Tickets at £20 are available at www.lawnlincoln.com/the-blue-room-events