Williams, Tennessee

Set in the Creole quarter of New Orleans, the powerful award-winning drama focuses on the life and fantasies of a neurotic, alcoholic, guilt-ridden woman and the resentment and passion that she instills in her brother-in-law.

A chronological arrangement of the noted American playwright's complete stories, published and unpublished, provides a veiled look at his life and concerns.

Contains three plays by Tennessee Williams including "Sweet Bird of Youth," about a toxic relationship between an aging actress and her opportunistic young lover; "The Rose Tattoo," the story of a lonely Italian widow's tryst with a truck driver; and "The Night of the Iguana," in which two very different women vie for the love of a former minister.

After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed by and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money. He sets about discovering everything else he can about her past, and tension between Blanche and Stanley is further intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.

Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.