Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister's cramped New Orleans apartment with a trunk of old finery and a story about herself that will not hold together.
Tennessee Williams sets the whole play in two rooms and a stair landing, so Blanche, Stella and Stanley Kowalski cannot avoid one another for long. The text here carries the full dialogue along with Williams's stage directions for lighting, music and the street outside, which is what makes the play readable rather than merely stageable. At 144 pages the paperback is easy to annotate, and the scene divisions suit classroom reading or rehearsal work.
Why this one holds up:
• The complete play text with Williams's original stage directions
• A 144-page paperback with wide enough margins for notes
• Set in a post-war French Quarter flat where privacy is impossible
• A standard title on drama and modern literature reading lists
Written for theatre students, literature readers and anyone collecting twentieth-century American drama, published by Fingerprint! Publishing and available at Boipoka.