Bitesize critics

• Blanche "gathers momentum all evening and concludes with both logic and dramatic impact."


  Atkinson
• "Everything about Streetcar is beautifully, uniquely theatrical – right down to the title."


  Hauptman
• "a culture in a state of crisis, its certainties dislocating, its myths collapsing."


  Bigsby
• "A play of sexual politics'


  Kolin
• Reports of audiences clapping and cheering during the rape scene in the original stage production by Kazan
• "An attack on a society that elevates crude energy and muscular materialism above delicacy of feeling"


  Billington
• "An almost desperately morbid turn of mind"
• "A great American play about the lies we all need to sustain our precarious existence."


  Billington
• "A sombre, Darwinian tragedy. All survival demands its price"


  Peter
• "This is a poetic tragedy, not a realistic, naturalistic one." 


  Elia Kazan