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the exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in new orleans about: /Streetcar.html A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind [I know not whither hurled] But not for long to hold each desperate choice. HART CRANE The Broken Tower THE CHARACTERS The first London production of this play was at the Aldwych Theatre on Wednesday,.2 October.949, with the following cast: Blanche DuBois Vivien Leigh Stella Kowalski Rerw Asfwrson Stanley Kowalski Bonar Colleam Harold Mitchell [Mitch] Bernard Braden Eunice Hubbel Eileen Dale Steve Hubbel Lyn Euans Pablo Gonzales Theodore Bikel Negro woman Brwe Howard A strange man [doctor] Sidney Monckton A strange woman [nurse] Mona Lilian A young collector John Farrest A Mexican woman Eileen Way Directed by Laurence Olivier Setting and lighting by Jo meilziner Costumes by Beatrice Dawson ***************************************************************************************** SCENE ONE The exterior of a two-storey corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L N tracks and the river. The section is poor but unlike corresponding sections in other American cities, it has a raffish charm. The houses are mostly white frame, weathered grey, with rickety outside stairs and galleries and quaintly ornamented gables. This building contains two flats, upstairs and down. Faded white stairs ascend to the entrances of both. It is first dark of an evening early in May. The sky that shows around the dim white building is a peculiarly tender blue, almost turquoise, which invests the scene with a kind of lyricism and gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay. You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses with their faint redolences of bananas and coffee. A corresponding air is evoked by the music of Negro entertainers at a bar-room around the corner. In this