Has anyone read the play, ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' by Tennessee Williams, and was it good? I enjoyed the movie.

If you enjoyed the 1951 film version of A Streetcar Named Desire then you're likely to enjoy the original play by Tennessee Williams, too. However, it's worth noting that although the film generally stays true to the play, the play is a lot darker than its Hollywood adaptation, with some scenes being cut or edited due to censorship.

Differences between the play of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and the film

• The scene in which Stanley Kowalski rapes Blanche Dubois is much darker in the play.


• The film's producers were forced to remove all references to the homosexuality of Blanche's late husband, Allan Grey.


• The film uses a wider range of settings than are shown in the play, with scenes taking place in locations that are only referred to briefly on stage.


• The ending is more depressing in the play than it is in the film. Although Blanche is raped and committed to a mental asylum in both versions of the story, Stanley is not punished at all in the play, whereas the film has him suffer when his wife Stella vows to leave him. The film's producers had wanted to leave out the rape scene entirely, but Tennessee Williams insisted that it was integral to the story and could not be removed. As a result, Stella making Stanley 'pay' for his actions was added as a form of compromise.

No but I love the movie and the english actress in it was the women who played scarlet ohara in gone with the wind,

We did the book for English GCSE and there are a couple of major revisings for the film version that don't appear in the book.Apparently this was down to "director interpretation".