![]() But it is not just her story: Streetcar contains a triangle of complex characters, whose failure to be honest with one another gives the play its tragic momentum. Williams’s play – which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this month – follows Blanche’s unravelling. Legend has it that she could even be found wandering London’s red-light district alone at night after shows, talking to prostitutes, finding an affinity between them and Blanche’s own “more pathetic promiscuity”. She had been doggedly determined to play the part of the self-deluding, fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois, but her own struggles with bipolar disorder were exacerbated when she took on the role in 1949, directed on stage by husband Laurence Olivier. ![]() “It tipped me into madness,” admitted Vivien Leigh. To star in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire is a dream for many actors – but the play comes at a price. ![]()
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