Students from our school watch a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire in the Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao

On Saturday the 30th April at 8pm, a group students and Spanish teachers from Germany attended the production of A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the work by the American playwright Tennesse Williams.

This performance is about the tensions centred around Blance Dubois and her sister and brother-in-law upon her visit to New Orleans. Blanche is an attractive and unbalanced woman from the south, nearing the end of her youth, whose pretensions of virtue and education hide her alcoholism. Her sister is married to Stanley Kowalsk, a rude Polish proletarian, drinker and keen card player. The clash between Blance and Stan, who hides a dark and mysterious attraction, symbolises to a certain extent the conflict between the 2 societies that the characters represent: the brutal force of nature against moral prejudices.

Our Spanish students were able to follow the dialogues perfectly, and enjoyed the play, which was almost three hours long, including the interval. They were also impressed by the technical aspects of the production, for example the use of artifical rain in some scenes and pleasantly surprised by the beauty of the inside of the Arriaga Theatre.