A tram called desire: its history
Introduction
It is a traditional play of the US theater, she was a carrier of the Pulitzer Prize in the Drama category in 1948 and its author is the playwright Tennessee Williams. It is considered one of the most important works of US literature, it was also released on Broadway on December 3, 1947 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on December 17, 1949. Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. The work was nominated, she became creditors of two Tony awards.
In 1951, the film a tram called Desire, directed by Elia Kazan and based on the work, won several awards, including an Oscar in the category of best actress, for Vivien Leigh’s performance as Blanche Dubois. In 1995, an opera was released based on the history of a tram called desire, with music from André Previn and with Renée Fleming like Blanche.
Developing
Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus and died on February 25, 1983. Son of Cornelius Williams and Edwina Williams, he also had two brothers Rose Isabel and Walter Dakin, his artistic name is Tennessee which was assigned by his classmates due to his southern voice accent and his family origins. He studied at the Universities of Missouri and Washington, graduated in Philosophy and Letters from Iowa in 1938.
He had a very difficult childhood and adolescence, together with his homosexuality, they frequently led him to depression and alcoholism, but all this helped him, since this impulses to write different works and all have been considered as the best of his kind of his kind. In 1945, he joined Broadway the first work of his which was the Crystal Zoo, she became the winner of the New York Theater Critics Circle Award. He took to the cinema in 1950 and has been represented worldwide. This work was written because he felt moved by a feeling of guilt towards his sister, who had suffered a lobotomy.
A tram called desire was considered the best play written in your country. She was adapted to the cinema in 1952 with great success, since she won her first Pulitzer of Theater Prize. The second was provided by the cat on the hot zinc roof that was released in 1954 and shot in 1958. The three works mentioned present very poetic dialogues and with great symbolism.
It also has extraordinary and original characters. His characters are frequently faced with society and discuss conflicts with a fairly large intensity. Several of these works have been winning awards and have brought the author to the author, as well as the staging of certain works as a tram called desire, which has the splendid star of Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, who They act like Stella and Stanley.
Tennessee Williams and the theatrical world
Tennessee Williams throughout his career treatment controversial issues such as the disappointment of the human being, incommunication, the revelation of hidden secrets, homosexuality and dementia among others among others. Educated with the traditional customs of the southern United States. Start his literary career at an early age as he’s career he manages to build characters based on his family and nearby beings.
For him it was not easy to be in the theatrical world, since he was afraid that people would see him like a homosexual playwright. Among his works, a rumors and controversial press about his person was caused, since inside his characters there was a great latent sexuality especially in the male characters. In one of his works where he presented himself, he varies sexual tension was in a tram called desire, there was already an adulterous relationship between Blanche and Stanley. These film adaptations made the owner of international fame to Tennessee.
conclusion
The different characters that Tennessee have implemented in his theatrical works present differences between theater and adaptations to the cinema. Because in the cinema the actor is an expressive part and his physical presence becomes an image with which the public achieves a greater degree of identification from the temporal and spatial distancing. On the other hand, on the other hand, in the Theater the Center for Attention and Predomination of Verbal Speech is the actor. The two aspects are perceived by the viewer in a real time, the actor intensifies the level of representation to differentiate the reality of the story.
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