A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

Blanche dreads the truth as much as bright light, which shows up the lines on her delicately beautiful, aging face. She escapes bitter reality – the family estate has melted away under her stewardship, she has lost her job and succumbed to alcohol – by going to stay with her sister, Stella. Although she thus has a place to live, her brother-in-law Stanley’s coarse, grasping character is incompatible with her sensitive, deluded view of the world. Blanche becomes unstable. Meeting a friend of Stanley’s offers her a glimmer of hope, but when he drops her, this last humiliation makes her lose her mind. She is approaching the end of the line. The American author Tennessee Williams wrote the play with the newly emerging working class in mind – which was superseding the decaying upper echelons of the American South. The socially critical piece, which was premièred in German at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in 1949, was one of the author’s greatest successes. Bastian Kraft most recently directed “Homo faber” and “Buddenbrooks” at the Pfauen.

Cast and Team

Blanche

Lena
Schwarz

Stella

Henrike Johanna
Jörissen

Stanley

Michael
Neuenschwander

Mitch

Klaus
Brömmelmeier

Eunice

Miriam
Maertens

Steve

Nicolas
Rosat

Ein junger Kassierer

Severin
Mauchle

Eine Krankenschwester

Barblin
Leggio

Ein Arzt

Lukas
Baumann

Pablo

Roger
Hofstetter

Direction

Bastian Kraft

Set Designer

Costume Designer

Sabin Fleck

Sound

Arthur Fussy

Video

Jonas Link

Dramaturg

Karolin Trachte

Lighting Designer

Michel Güntert

Assistant Director

Marco Milling

Assistant Stage Designer

Natascha Leonie Simons

Assistant Costume Designer

Liv Senn

Stage Manager

Dagmar Renfer

Prompter

Katja Weppler

Internship Direction

Nina Wyss

Literary Internship

Vera Zimmermann

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by Tennessee Williams

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