A Streetcar Named Desire (Audio book) - Abridged 2 CDs

Informationen zum Autor Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi won Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Other plays include The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth and Night of the Iguana. He also wrote a number of one-act plays, short stories, poems and two novels, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Moishe and the Age of Reason. He died in 1983 at the age of 72. Klappentext Caedmon is proud to release this archival full-cast recording of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire on cd for the first time! Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella's New Orleans apartment seeking refuge from a troubled past—but her ethereal spirit irks Stella's husband, the loutish Stanley Kowalski. Crudely, relentlessly, he unmasks the lies and delusions that sustain Blanche, until her frail hold on reality is shockingly severed. This atmospheric recording of Tennessee Williams's powerful classic stars Rosemary Harris and James Farentino as Blanche and Stanley—roles they performed to acclaim in a smash revival at New York's Lincoln Center. Zusammenfassung Caedmon is proud to release this archival full-cast recording of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire on cd for the first time! Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella's New Orleans apartment seeking refuge from a troubled past—but her ethereal spirit irks Stella's husband! the loutish Stanley Kowalski. Crudely! relentlessly! he unmasks the lies and delusions that sustain Blanche! until her frail hold on reality is shockingly severed. This atmospheric recording of Tennessee Williams's powerful classic stars Rosemary Harris and James Farentino as Blanche and Stanley—roles they performed to acclaim in a smash revival at New York's Lincoln Center. ...

Product details

• Authors: Tennessee Williams
• Assisted by: Theater Lincoln Center (Reader / Narrator), James Farentino (Editor), Rosemary Harris (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780061714658
• ISBN: 978-0-06-171465-8
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 124 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Harper Collins Audio Books; Harper Collins Audio Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Performing Arts, Poetry, Psychology, Films, cinema, Theatre Studies, Reference works, Performing arts: comedy, General and world history, Comedy and stand-up, PERFORMING ARTS: Film & Video / General, DRAMA: American / General, PERFORMING ARTS: General, PERFORMING ARTS: Theater / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Love & Romance, PERFORMING ARTS: Reference, HISTORY: Reference, PSYCHOLOGY: Mental Health, PERFORMING ARTS: Theater / Broadway & Musicals