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Transcript: Profile: Origins of "A Streetcar Named Desire"
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- September 23, 2002
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Profile: Origins of "A Streetcar Named Desire"
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
BOB EDWARDS, host:
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards.
It's been 55 years since the Broadway debut of "A Streetcar Named
Desire," voted the number one play of the 20th century by the American
Theatre Critics Association. The show is still playing in theaters
around the world and gave birth to an Academy Award-winning movie.
Playwright Tennessee Williams broke cultural and political barriers
with the steamy, tragic tale of a fallen Southern belle.
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