In 'Sweet Bird of Youth', a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the girl he loved in his youth, but with terrible, violent results. 'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. Tennessee Williams's evocation of loneliness and lost love, 'The Glass Menagerie' is one of his most powerful and moving plays.


