timeline

• scene 1 -  We meet Stella, Stanley and Blanche

  • Description of Elysian Fields
  • Blanche lies about her drinking, after already having drunk
  • Blanche says that she has lost Belle Reve
  • Stanley comes in and takes off his shirt
• scene 2 - Stanley goes through Blanche's things

  • Stella is taking Blanche out during the poker night
  • Blanche is having a bath for her nerves
  • Stanley goes through Blanche's things, claiming he knows their cost.
  • Blanche says she will burn the love letters now Stanley has touched them
  • We learn that Stella is pregnant.
• Scene 3 - The poker night

  • We are introduced to the poker night through the bold colours of the men
  • Stella and Blanche discuss Mitch
  • Stella describes that Stanley will succeed because of his drive to succeed.
  • Mitch and Blanche talk awkwardly
  • Stanley throws the radio out the window
  • Stella calls him an animal and Stanley hits her
  • Stanley calls out 'STELLAAAAAA'
• Scene 4 - Stanley overhears Blanche's speech about him

  • Stella explains the importance of desire in her's and Stanley's relationship
  • Blanche launches into talking about Shep Huntleigh
  • Blanche calls Stanley rude names eg. common and Stanley overhears
  • Stanley embraces Stella and grins at Blanche
• Scene 5 - Shimmer and glow/paper boy

  • Eunice and Steve are fighting
  • Stanley asks Blanche about Laurel and The Flamingo. Blanche acts like she knows nothing
  • Shimmer and Glow speech
  • A young man comes to the door and Blanche accosts him
  • Mitch then arrives right after the young man leaves.
• Scene 6 - Allan Grey

  • Blanche and Mitch return from an awful date.
  • Mitch talks about his physique, his sweating and Blanche's weight.
  • Blanche then tells us about Allan Grey and his homosexuality,
  • Blanche and Mitch embrace, and the audience has hope for them.
• Scene 7 - Stanley tells Stella about Blanche's past

  • Blanche is in a bath, while Stella sets up for her birthday
  • Stanley tells Stella about Blanche's past.
  • Blanche was evicted from Laurel for an affair with a student.
  • He tells Stella that he is going to tell Mitch about her past.
• scene 8 - bus ticket

  • Mitch doesn't show up to Blanches birthday party.
  • Stella calls Stanley a pig and he gets triggered.
  • Stanley calms down but is then triggered again when Blanche calls him a Polack
  • Stanley gives Blanche the bus ticket back to Laurel
  • Stella goes into labour
• Scene 9 - Mitch assault scene

  • Mitch arrives when Blanche is alone and drunk
  • Mitch asks Blanche if she is boxed out of her mind.
  • Blanche tells Mitch about the events in Laurel
  • Mitch tries to rape Blanche and she calls Fire! out the window.
• scene 10 - rape scene

  • Blanche is now even more drunk and more alone.
  • Blanche tells Stanley about Shep Hunteigh and he plays with her
  • She tells Stanley that Mitch came back to her.
  • Stanley traps Blanche in the room but tells her she has plenty of room to walk by
  • He then traps her and carries off her limp body
  • The expressionistic effects are especially intense at the dramatic peak of this scene
• scene 11 - blanche is escorted away

  • The women are packing a suitcase for Blanche and the men are playing poker
  • She is still obsessed with her fantasy of Shep Huntleigh and asks if any calls have come for her
  • Blanche runs away from the doctor
  • The doctor addresses Blanche respectfully and Blanche stops struggling - the kindness of strangers
  • Stella watches Blanche drive away, Stanley tries to comfort her and the other men sit down for another game of poker.