"A Streetcar Named Desire is lyrical and poetic and human and heartbreaking and memorable and funny"
-Francis Ford Coppola
Critically acclaimed Washington DC-based Keegan Theatre returns to Ireland in 2005 with Tennessee Williams’ most electrifying and absorbing theatrical masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire. Mark A. Rhea, Keegan’s Artistic Director, reprises his celebrated performance as Stanley Kowalski, having originally played the role for Keegan in 1999. With its raw sexuality, A Streetcar Named Desire broke taboos on stage and screen. Set against the steamy backdrop of New Orleans’ gritty French Quarter, Tennessee Williams’s 1947 Pulitzer Prize–winning drama tells the story of Blanche Dubois, a faded Southern belle driven to madness by her animalistic brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski….Don’t miss this stunning work of the American Stage!
Reviews from Keegan’s 1999 production of A Streetcar Named Desire:
“Consistently terrific… Streetcar fans will definitely have something to talk about on the ride home…”
- The Washington Post
“Keegan scores another hit with a Williams classic … Rhea gives Stanley his own scary, explosive interpretation…”
-Channel 33
“…the unspoken animal tension between Kowalski and DuBois is so palpable that you can almost hear and feel their heavy breaths…”
-Sun Weekly
