Until next Sunday, the Teatro Español de Madrid presents Un tranvía llamado deseo (A Streetcar named Desire), a masterpiece of American dramaturgy written by Tennessee Williams and directed by David Serrano, in the Main Hall of this space of the Area of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the City of Madrid.
The actors Nathalie Poza, Pablo Derqui and María Vázquez star in the story, set in a warm New Orleans apartment where tensions between Blanche, Stella and Stanley burst with tragic force.
The work portrays in depth the conflict between desire and loss, between sleep and the crudeness of the modern world. After losing the family home, Blanche DuBois is forced to move to New Orleans and share housing with her sister Stella and her brother-in-law, the unsettling Stanley Kowalski. The passion, the clash between illusion and reality, and the impossibility of escaping from the past, will drag everyone towards an inevitable outcome.
More than 70 years after its premiere, A Streetcar named Desire continues to resonate with force, both for the validity of its themes and for the complexity of its characters. In the words of the director, David Serrano: “A tram called desire is a round and unquestionable text without which it is impossible to understand the theater of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams captured with tremendous honesty his complex relationship to love and desire. My priority as a director has always been to put myself at the service of the story and the actors, and having in my hands a masterpiece like A Streetcar named Desire will be even more so”. Tickets can be purchased at this link.