The Champlain College Players, under
the direction of Donald Rowe, will
present Tennessee Williams’ acclaimed
drama, A Streetcar Named Desire as
their fall 1993 mainstage production.
Produced first on Broadway in De-
cember 1947 in a now legendary pro-
duction directed by Elia Kazan and star-
ring Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy,
Streetcar has since received countless
theatrical revivals and been filmed twice.
Both the 1951 film version with Vivian
Leigh and Brando and the 1983 tele-
vision production starring Ann Margaret
and Treat Williams have been heaped
with critical acclaim and with awards —
Academy, Emmy, Golden Globe, New
York Film Critics, etc.

Centering around Blanche DuBois, a
prototypical Williams southern gentle-
woman, Streetcar recounts the conflict
between brutality and civilization, be-
tween those at home in the world and
those forever outside its conventions, be-
tween monogamy and promiscuity, be-
tween homosexuality and hetero-
sexuality, and between sanity and
insanity. The sensitive exploration of
these conflicts in Streetcar, the vividness
of its characters, the beauty of its lan-
guage, and the power of its theatrical

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imagination, make it an especially mean-
ingful play among gay audiences.

Williams himself, America’s foremost
gay playwright, often commented on the
degree to which his sexual orientation in-
fluenced his writing. In the Memoirs, for
example, he said, “There is more sensibil-
ity — which is equivalent to more talent-
among gays of both sexes than among the
“norms”. Why? They must compensate
for so much.” Thus he links the life of the
gay person, the loner, the outsider, with
the idea that art may arise out of suffering
and deprivation - a compensation for pain
and loss. With regard to Streetcar specif-
ically, Donald Spoto, Williams’ biog-
rapher commented that “in his creative
struggles with himself and in his domestic
struggles with Pancho (his lover at the
time), he met both the protective and de-
structive Stanley and the gentle, needy,
spiritual but manipulative sensualist,
Blanche.”

A Streetcar Named Desire will be the sev-
enth production of the Champlain College
Players, following on the heels of their
highly acclaimed performances of Bus
Stop, Not About Heroes, Marat/Sade,
Canterbury Tales, Amadeus, and Hamlet.
It will be presented at Alumni Auditorium

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November 1993

on the Champlain College Campus
Wednesday through Saturday, No-
vember 10-13. Performances will begin
at 8 pm. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3
for students and seniors. For further in-
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