A welcome new adaptation

Considered one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, A Streetcar Named Desire is a poetic masterpiece that follows the life of a desperate Southern belle seeking refuge at her sister's New Orleans apartment following the loss of their ancestral home, only to be confronted by the unforgiving brutality of her brother-in-law, a controlling blue collar worker who wields sexual threat like a weapon. At once an instant classic, the play still resonates with how we feel, think, and move today.

Clinging desperately to a masquerade of faded Southern grace, Blanche DuBois invites herself into her sister Stella's life, and cramped apartment, which creates all the wrong kinds of sparks with her brutish brother-in-law Stanley. When dark secrets about Blanche's past begin to emerge, her world comes apart at the seams in a shocking spiral of violence and madness, and inevitably turns all their lives upside-down forever.