The 1947 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Tennese Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Liv Ullmann and starring the outstanding ensemble cast of the Sydney Theatre Company (Australia) that includes Cate Blanchett (as Blanche DuBois), Joel Edgerton (as Stanley Kowalski) and Robin McLeavy (as Blanche's sister, Stella Kowalski) comes to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a strictly limited engagement.

Williams' Streetcar is a landmark example of American realism theatre that emerged from the Depression and World War II. As Williams himself remarks, the play is about “the ravishment of the tender, the sensitive, the delicate, by the savage and brutal forces of modern society” (Charles Highan, 1987, Brando: The Unauthorized Biography).

A Streetcar Named Desire deals with a culture clash between two symbolic characters, Blanche DuBois, a pretentious, fading relic of the Old South, and Stanley Kowalski, a rising member of the industrial, urban immigrant class.

And so it was I entered the broken world
To trace the visionary company of love, it voice
An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled)
But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

- from "The Broken Tower" by Hart Crane