NT Live – A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire is recommended for mature audiences.

Duration 3 hours, including an interval.

Gillian Anderson is Blanche DuBois in this screening of Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece.

Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece.

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

From visionary director Benedict Andrews, this acclaimed production was filmed live during a sold-out run at London’s Young Vic Theatre in 2014.

A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most critically acclaimed plays of the 20th Century - opening on Broadway in 1947 with actors Jessica Tandy (Blanche), Marlon Brando (Stanley), Kim Hunter (Stella) and Karl Malden (Mitchell). The first London production, directed by Laurence Olivier, opened in 1949 with his wife Vivien Leigh as Blanche. Brando, Hunter and Malden reprised their Broadway roles for the controversial 1951 film adaptation, with Vivien Leigh joining them as Blanche. Leigh, Hunter and Malden all won Academy Awards for their roles – Marlon Brando missed out that year to Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen.