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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

Start date: March 1, 2021

Finish date: March 31, 2021

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Apr 07, 2017 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2017, drama, play, fiction-20th-century, audio-books, american-fiction, book-and-movie, pulitzer-prize

From BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3:
Anne Marie Duff leads a stellar cast in a new landmark production of Tennessee Williams's iconic play, telling the story of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski.

Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep of her sister Stella and her explosive brother-in-law Stanley. Over the course of one hot and steamy New Orleans summer, Blanche's fragile façade slowly crumbles, wreakin ...more

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Mar 18, 2021 Kris rated it liked it · review of another edition

I'm familiar with the story -- thank goodness! -- but this audio book was so over produced, I couldn't hear it. I got lots of background noise and ambiance, but the actual words were lost in the cacophony! ...more

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