National Theatre Live Screening
A Streetcar Named Desire
Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 3pm
By Tennessee Williams
Direction: Benedict Andrews
A Young Vic | Joshua Andrews co-production
Running time: 3 hours and 18 minutes, including a 20-minute interval.
Blanche DuBois: Gillian Anderson
Eunice Hubbell: Clare Burt
Mexican Woman: Lachele Carl
Steve: Branwell Donaghey
Young Collector: Otto Farrant
Stanley Kowalski: Ben Foster
Doctor: Nicholas Gecks
Pablo: Troy Glasgow
Nurse: Stephanie Jacob
Harold Mitchell (Mitch): Corey Johnson
Stella Kowalski: Vanessa Kirby
Woman: Claire Prempeh
Direction: Benedict Andrews
Design: Magda Willi
Costumes: Victoria Behr
Light: Jon Clark
Sound: Paul Arditti
Music: Alex Baranowski
UK Casting: Maggie Lunn CDG, Camilla Evans CDG
US Casting: Jim Carnahan CSA
Voice: Richard Ryder
Fight: Bret Yount
Dialect: Rick Lipton Jerwood
Assistant Director: Natasha Nixon
Director For Screen: Nick Wickham
Technical Producer: Christopher C. Bretnall
Lighting Designer: Mike Le Fevre
Sound Supervisor: Conrad Fletcher
Script Supervisor: Cecilia Savage
by Mark Cave, excerpted from The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly (Spring 2022) and available online at hnoc.org
‘Undoubtedly our artistic climate is going to change through the world situation. [. . .] I think there is going to be a vast hunger for life after all this death—and for light after all this eclipse. [. . .] People will want to read, see, feel the living truth and they will revolt against the sing-song Mother Goose book of lies that are being fed to them.’ - Tennessee Williams, 29 November 1941
The play struck a deep chord in the post-World War II United States, where people struggled to find their places in a rapidly changing social order. Audiences had lived through one of the most violent periods in human history, and to many, the name of the play’s lost ancestral home, Belle Reve – ‘beautiful dream’ – evoked fading prewar notions of morality and societal convention. Viewers were ready to embrace, as Williams had predicted in 1941, ‘the living truth’ of their new era.
Streetcar’s reflection of a crumbling social order appealed as much to Latin America, postwar Europe, and beyond as it did to US audiences. Productions in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico were immediately staged in 1948, and within 10 years, important productions had appeared in Greece, Italy, London, Paris, Sweden, Japan, and Korea, and Farsi and Arabic translations were published. The first major Soviet production premiered in 1970, and 1988 saw the first performance of the play in mainland China.
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