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‘Streetcar Named Desire’ at Russian Centre
The Movie ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (1951) will be screened on February 26, at 5.00 pm at the Russian Centre, in Colombo. ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is directed by Elia Kazan. The main cast comprises Vivian Leigh and Marlon Brando. The film bagged Four Academy Awards in 1951.

Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following world war Two, ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is the story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own.

She was exiled from her hometown of Laurel, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English.

Blanche explains her unexpected appearance on Stanley and Stell’a (Blanche’s sister) doorstep from nervous exhaustion. This, she claims, is the result of a series of financial calamities which have recently claimed the family plantation, Belle Reve. Suspicious, Stanley points out that “under Louisiana’s napoleonic code what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband”.

For further details about the screening, contact Chandi on 2685429/2685440.

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