"A Streetcar Named Desire" Play Needs Cast
"A Streetcar Named Desire" play seeking actors. Please see the breakdown below. About the project: A Streetcar Named Desire is a play by Tennessee Williams written during a period of change in America after World War II. In short, it is about a woman who comes to live with her sister and her sister’s husband. She eventually loses her grip on reality as she fails to get what it is she most desires. Additional info: Please bring headshot and resume. Sides will be available. If you are interested, please apply.
13 roles
Stella’s older sister who was a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi, until she was forced to leave her post. Blanche is a loquacious and fragile woman. Though she has strong sexual urges and has had many lovers, she puts on the airs of a woman who has never known indignity. She avoids reality, preferring to live in her own imagination.
Blanche’s younger sister, has a mild disposition that visibly sets her apart from her more vulgar neighbors. Married to Stanley.
The husband of Stella. Stanley is the epitome of vital force. He is loyal to his friends, passionate to his wife, and heartlessly cruel to Blanche. With his Polish ancestry, he represents the new, heterogeneous America.
Stanley’s army friend, coworker, and poker buddy, who courts Blanche, though he is clumsy, sweaty, and has unrefined interests like muscle building, Mitch is more sensitive and more gentlemanly than Stanley and his other friends.
Stella’s friend, upstairs neighbor, and landlady. Eunice and her husband, Steve, represent the low-class, carnal life that Blanche and Stanley are in.
A teenager who comes to the Kowalskis’ door to collect for the newspaper when Blanche is home alone. The boy leaves bewildered after Blanche hits on him and gives him a passionate farewell kiss.
Stanley’s poker buddy who lives upstairs with his wife, Eunice. Like Stanley, Steve is a brutish, hot-blooded, physically fit male and an abusive husband.
Stanley’s poker buddy. Like Stanley and Steve, Steve is physically fit and brutish.
In Scene One, the unnamed Black woman is sitting on the steps talking to Eunice when Blanche arrives, and she finds Stanley’s openly sexual gestures toward Stella hilarious.
The doctor ironically conforms to Blanche’s notions of the chivalric Southern gentleman who will offer her salvation.
A vendor of Mexican funeral decorations who frightens Blanche by issuing the plaintive call “Flores para los muertos,” which means “Flowers for the dead.”
Also called the “Matron,” she possesses a severe, unfeminine manner and has a talent for subduing hysterical patients.
Silhouette is seen behind screen. Hourglass figure.
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