Announcing auditions for A Streetcar Named Desire!

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When:	August 18 & 19, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Where:	Cunningham Hall, 75 Edge Hill Road, Milton, MA
Who:	There are no specific age requirements for these characters. All are encouraged to audition.
*	Blanche DuBois	Stella’s older sister, who was a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi, until she was forced to leave her post. Blanche is a loquacious and fragile woman around the age of thirty. Though she has strong sexual urges and has had many lovers, she puts on the airs of a woman who has never known indignity. She avoids reality, preferring to live in her own imagination. As the play progresses, Blanche’s instability grows.
*	Stella Kowalski	Blanche’s younger sister, of a mild disposition. Stella possesses the same timeworn aristocratic heritage as Blanche, but she left Mississippi for New Orleans. There, Stella married lower-class Stanley, with whom she shares a robust sexual relationship. Stella’s union with Stanley is both animal and spiritual, violent but renewing.
*	Stanley Kowalski	The husband of Stella. Stanley is the epitome of vital force. He is loyal to his friends, passionate to his wife. With his Polish ancestry, he represents the new, heterogeneous America. He sees himself as a social leveler, and wishes to destroy Blanche’s social pretensions. By the play’s end, he is a disturbing degenerate.
*	Harold “Mitch” Mitchell	Stanley’s army friend, coworker, and poker buddy, who courts Blanche until he finds out that she lied to him about her sordid past. Though he is clumsy, sweaty, Mitch is more sensitive and more gentlemanly than Stanley.
*	Eunice Hubbell	Stella’s friend, neighbor, and landlady. Eunice and her husband, Steve, represent the low-class, carnal life that Stella has chosen for herself. Like Stella, Eunice accepts her husband’s affections despite his physical abuse of her.
*	Steve Hubbell	Stanley’s poker buddy who lives upstairs with his wife, Eunice. Like Stanley, Steve is a brutish, hot-blooded, abusive husband.
*	A Young Collector	A teenager who comes to the Kowalskis’ door to collect for the newspaper when Blanche is home alone. He embodies Blanche’s obsession with youth.
*	Pablo Gonzales	Stanley’s poker buddy. Like Stanley and Steve, Pablo is brutish. Pablo is Hispanic, and his friendship with Steve, Stanley, and Mitch emphasizes the culturally diverse nature of their neighborhood.
*	A Negro Woman
*	A Mexican Woman
*	A Doctor	The doctor ironically conforms to Blanche’s notions of the chivalric Southern gentleman who will offer her salvation.
*	A Nurse	She possesses a severe, unfeminine manner and has a talent for subduing hysterical patients.
*	Prostitute
*	Sailor
*	Various New Orleans Background Characters