Evanston Township High School (ETHS) will present Tennessee Williams’s award-winning play “A Streetcar Named Desire” on December 15, 16, and 17 in the school’s Upstairs Theatre. All performances begin at 7:30pm.
This emotionally charged play deals with the culture clash between Blanche DuBois, a fading, delusional Southern Belle with a troubled past, and her brutish, working-class, brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, who lives with his wife Stella, Blanche’s sister, in New Orleans. Written in 1947, “A Streetcar Named Desire” ran on Broadway for two years, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948 and several Academy Awards when it was made into a movie in 1951.
The ETHS student cast, directed by faculty member Aaron Carney, features Olivia Cygan as Blanche, Evan Handler as Stanley, and Isabella Gerasole as Stella.
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Reserved-seat tickets at $7 for adults, $5 for students and senior citizens are available through the ETHS Fine Arts Hotline (847-424-7848).
ETHS is located at 1600 Dodge Ave. The Upstairs Theatre is handicapped accessible with elevator service to the theater lobby. Parking is best in the school’s rear parking lot; enter off of Church or Lake Sts.
