Talisman Theatre and Arts Centre Barrow Road, Kenilworth CV8 1EG

Monday 18th - Saturday 23rd May 2026

A Streetcar Named Desire

We have two wheelchairs spaces as indicated on the seating plan above.

To check availability and book please contact the Box Office on 01926 856548 (or email us through our Contact Us page)

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Passion. Desire. Madness. Survival.

by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Chris Carpenter

Traditional values clash with modern realities in this timeless masterpiece.

Considered Tennessee Williams’s finest work, A Streetcar Named Desire follows Blanche Dubois, a fading Southern belle who is staying with her sister, Stella, in boisterous New Orleans. When she meets Stanley, Stella’s overtly masculine and working-class husband, tensions between the pair rapidly and violently come to a head in the claustrophobia of their cramped living quarters.

Join us for this powerful tale of desire and destruction as Blanche realises that the present holds no hope and the past is inescapable.

Age recommendation: 14 + or at parental discretion. Themes of sexual and domestic violence.

This amateur production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.

PERFORMANCE DATES & TIMES

We have two wheelchair spaces available for each performance. To book wheelchair spaces, be added to the waiting list or ticket returns, please contact Box Office on 01926 856548 (or via our Contact Us page)

Tickets are available via the online booking system with concessions available for full time students, those in receipt of a pension, Talisman members and group bookings (for parties of 10 or more).

Talisman Theatre and Arts Centre
Barrow Road, Kenilworth CV8 1FN

We have two wheelchairs spaces as indicated on the seating plan above.

To check availability and book please contact the Box Office on 01926 856548 (or email us through our Contact Us page)

Click for Seating Plan

SHOW DETAILS

Passion. Desire. Madness. Survival.

by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Chris Carpenter

Traditional values clash with modern realities in this timeless masterpiece.

Join us for this powerful tale of desire and destruction as Blanche realises that the present holds no hope and the past is inescapable.

Age recommendation: 14 + or at parental discretion. Themes of sexual and domestic violence.

This amateur production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.

CAST & CREW

Cast

Blanche Dubois – Jo Banbury

Stella Kowalski – Paige Phelps

Stanley Kowalski – Richard Morelli

Harold Mitchell (Mitch) – Dean Sheridan

Steve Hubbell – Paul Sully

Eunice Hubbell – Aoife O’Gorman

Pablo Gonzales – Henri West

Charity Collector, Street Man – Laurie Weston

Doctor, Street Man – Suniel Bagri

Nurse, Street Woman – Eloise Essig

Street Woman – Teresa Robertson

Vendor, Street Woman – Debora Mazzetta

Crew

Director – Chris Carpenter

Set Designer – John Ellam

Production Manager – Corrina Jacob

Wardrobe – Amelia Webster, Saira Roper, Aoife O’Gorman

Lighting – Dwayne Dawson

Sound – John Francis, Colin Thomas

Props – Jenny Beaufoy, Paul Sully

Set Build – Paul Kelly, John Ellam, Colin Thomas, Mike Crawshaw, Tim Eden, Bob Craik, Helier Fondeur, Steve Crowe

Publicity – Guy Devine

Photography – Gwyn Davies (with post production by Mark Plastow)

Assistant Production Manager – Mesi Johnson

DIRECTOR'S NOTES

I have always been drawn to and enthralled by great literature and great drama in particular.

“A Streetcar Named Desire” is one of the greatest plays ever written, and as we work on it in rehearsal, we are constantly impressed by its complexity and its sheer power. For me, it is undoubtedly the finest of Tennessee Williams’ fine plays and, indeed, the very finest American play.

Thanks to the Brando and Leigh iconic film version of the 1950s and a more recent revival at the National Theatre – oh – and countless inclusions on various exam syllabuses – the plot is well known. It even features in a Simpsons episode….

Blanche Dubois, haunted, neurotic, but intent on survival, arrives to stay with her sister Stella, who has moved from the family estate in rural Mississippi to lively, cosmopolitan New Orleans.

Stella has married Stanley Kowalski, a much more ebullient male than the “gentleman callers” of Blanche and Stella’s past life.

And so the power struggles begin.

The play is about power – the power of family ties, loyalty, sex, basic human neediness. It also shows us what happens when education, background, desire, and values are forced into conflict.

A truly engrossing evening of theatre is the result.

In these difficult and worrying times, it is perhaps good to remind ourselves of some of the very great cultural achievements to come out of the U.S. “A Streetcar Named Desire” is certainly one of these.

Christine Carpenter