“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, then transfer to one called Cemeteries, then ride six blacks and get off at — the Elysian Fields!” So begins the opening lines of Tennessee Williams most famous play, spoken by would-be  femme fatal Blanche Dubois.

Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize for this 1947 play, which tells the story of Blanche, an aging southern belle who, after a series of devastating personal losses pays a visit to her sister Stella in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

Stella lives in a shabby, run down two flat with her brutish and bullying husband Stanley Kowalski (played by  then-unknown Marlon Brando.)  Blanche is immediately both intimidated by and attracted to Stanley, who becomes relentless in his quest to expose dark secrets from Blanche’s past.

Rest assured, the secrets are very dark and dirty — there was  a love affair with a gay man…