Critics Quotes- Streetcar

Question 1

What did Elia Kazan, first director of play say?

Answer 1

“Blanche is dangerous. She is destructive. She would soon have him and Stella fighting. He’s got things his way and doesn’t want them upset by a phoney, corrupt woman. This makes Stanley right!

Question 2

John Lahr

Answer 2

“the play, and it’s author, beg the question of the price of survival.”

Question 3

Williams in response to Thornton Wilder-

Answer 3

“He’s clearly never had a good lay.”

Question 4

Williams

Answer 4

“ I don’t believe in guilt. I don’t believe in villains or heros, only right and wrong ways that individuals have taken…”

Question 5

Williams

Answer 5

“ All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”

Question 6

Thorton Wilder

Answer 6

“ It was based upon a fatally mistaken premise. No female lead who had ever been a lady could possibly marry a Vulgarian such as Stanley.”

Question 7

Durgin

Answer 7

“The play is a brilliant study of the disintegration of women.”

Question 8

Theodore H Parker

Answer 8

“ Stanley offers tenderness as well as despoilment.”

Question 9

Allan Lloyd Smith

Answer 9

Gothic is “about the return of the past, of the repressed and denied, the buried secret and subverts and corrodes the present.”

Question 10

William Faulkner

Answer 10

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”