A streetcar named desire

                   Continuing  with my project  to satisfy old curiosities I took a famous streetcar.

                   Just  breathe  and be human  to know  what is a wish. Desire is our heaven  and our hell. Who  does not  know  the power  of a wish? The Bible, the Koran, and all religious  scriptures almost do not  address  another issue: the desire, its dangers  and pitfalls. And also they offer  thousand recipes  on how  to handle  the desire, to tame  the  desire  or end up with  the  desire. The consumer unlike,  stimulates  our  latent  desires and creates  thousands of new desires.

                  But the drama  of Tennesse Williams  wastes  no time with  innocuous  repressions  or stimulus to consumption.  It  leads us  to see the  desire  acting on that tenement  as a living being,  invisible  but  present,  moving among  the furnishings  sparse. Blanche Dubois  with his bag of wishes and unfulfilled  expectations  take the tram  that will leave her at the home of her sister Stella Kowalski,  where he meets  her brother-in-low  Stanley Kowalski  who  is the  imbodiment  of desire,  both from  the  standpoint:  to desire  and  be desired. From  there  the circle of desires  starts to turn.

                  The desire is visceral in humans. Despite  that we may be  more selfish than other, more coarse or fine,  we all equate  in our nature as wishful beings. Desires  are our major motivations when  choosing  our trams. Creepy question:  What  awaits us at every  station?

                  The issue  is about situations  easily  found in life  since the desire is a kind of mainspring  that makes all happen. But  the text  makes a confluence  that is the result  of  ingeniousness  and  subtlety. The helpless  refinement  of Blanche  in  contrast  with  the  coarseness  of  Stanley,  the tenement  as a  physical  space  so  fertile  for  promiscuity,  the dosage of action, the melancholy  music, the faded  houses,  the irony  of the name  "belle reve"  to a decaying  farm,  tension and conflict  between Stanley  and  Blanche as their relationship  mixes  hostility  and attraction.

                 Alcohol,  cards game  and  underwear  are good  components to increase  promiscuity and make  the atmosphere  more tense  and  alarming. But  as a symbol,  nothing compares  to the train. It sounds  like a warning. A creepy  warning  of the shockes  of  fate.  The train  is coming from somewhere  and will  arrive in another place. What  await  us there?  And what will happen  on the trip? What are  our partners? Where will leave us the train  of life? Significant  and ominous  questions  to Blanche whose fate  (or circumstances) load her as a feather in the wind.

                 I think  it  is a  great  play  with and action extremely  engaging. An assembly  well  done has all  conditions  to achieve  a deep communication with the audience and offer  one of those  shows  from  where we  left pacified  with  life.