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When Blanche Met Brando: The Scandalous Story of “A Streetcar Named Desire”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2006

Garrett Eisler
Garrett Eisler
Affiliation:
CUNY Graduate Center
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Abstract

Sam Staggs's When Blanche Met Brando may not be the most scholarly commentary on Tennessee Williams, but it is certainly informative. Aiming “to synthesize, as no previous writer has, the first-hand accounts of those who were there” (xii) for both the 1947 Broadway premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire and its 1951 film, as well as subsequent revivals, Staggs succeeds at revealing the gulf between myth and fact, between play and production. By illuminating its twisted path of accidents from genesis to premiere to “classic,” Staggs reminds us that Streetcar by no means was destined to take on the form in which we now know it.

Type
Book Review
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , May 2006 , pp. 118 - 119
Copyright
© 2006 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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