Tickets are available for both readers and listeners.

A Streetcar named Desire (Part 1)

This is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche Dubois, a former Southern Belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans, rented by her younger sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley.

A Message from the organiser Chris Gill

We have been running play readings once a month at the Marine Theatre since January 2023. The Theatre continues kindly to provide the venue free to support community drama. We have a small group of regular attenders and we are always pleased to welcome new people, whether they want to read or just listen. We will be reading the brilliant, epic play, A Streetcar named desire over July and August (we want to do the play justice by covering it in two sections). Following on from the very successful rehearsed ‘script in hand’ performance of ‘Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ in June, we will be running another rehearsed reading in September. This is a new play called ‘A Conversation that never happened’, written and directed by Anastazie Toros, and the event is being organised in conjunction with the Shute Festival.

If you want to go on our circulation list or have any questions about the meetings, please contact Chris Gill through the Marine Theatre. We are particularly interested in hearing from anyone interested in performing in Anastazie’s play.

Please remember to bring with you a paper or screen copy of the script if you wish to read. We are not able to provide copies.