From left to right, Blanche, played by Mariah Lovett, Stella, played by Arijana Cook, and Stanley, played by Jake Kaufman, hold a heated discussion in Tennessee William’s classic play, A Streetcar Named Desire. The play will be held April 28-30 at 7:30 p.m. each night in the Spencer/Rounds Theatre on the main campus of Coffeyville Community College.
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams will be presented by Coffeyville Community College on April 28-30 at 7:30 p.m. in the Spencer/Rounds Theatre. The production is free. Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following World War II, A Streetcar Named Desire is the story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman with a colorful past who shows up on Stanley and Stella's (Blanche's sister) doorstep. Stanley, a sinewy and brutish man, and Stella, a devoted wife who is pregnant are deeply in love. Blanche's efforts to impose herself between them only enrages the animal inside Stanley. When Mitch, a card-playing buddy of Stanley's arrives on the scene, Blanche begins to see a way out of her painful past. Mitch, himself alone in the world, reveres Blanche as a beautiful and refined woman. Yet, as rumors of Blanche's past begin to catch up to her, her circumstances become unbearable leading to a path of destruction for all characters involved. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this play is considered one of the greatest plays ever written.
The cast consists of Jake Kaufman as Stanley Kowalski, Arijana Cook as Stella Kowalski, Mariah Lovett as Blanche DuBois, Randy Skidmore as Harold Mitchell, Zach Bartz as Steve Hubbell, Cheyenne Miller as Eunice Hubbell, Ian Ewing as Pablo Gonzales, Marci Asebedo as the Hispanic Woman, Dylan Hart as the Doctor, Amber Long as the nurse, Dillon Buresh as a Young Collector, Rebecca Jenicke, Brianna Cordova, Natalie Gouchenour, Aaron Flippin, Kody Halfhide, and Lauren Curley as street people. Keshia Snodgrass is the stage manager. Mark Frank is the Artistic Director of the production.