![]() ![]() ![]() With the superb performances of the cast, Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, the subtle but undeniably right direction of the gifted Elia Kazan, the film captured everything more that the play delivered on stage, with the intensity increased dramatically by the use of the camera. Tennessee Williams’ haunting, visceral work A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) might be the finest film adaptation of a play ever made. Each of the aforementioned works took the theatre world by storm, each has been made into a film, with varying degrees of success. They are Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, The Crucible, A Streetcar Named Desire, Equus, Angels in America and this masterful study of dysfunction by Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. There are seven great plays of the 20th century that remain as fresh, as powerful and as urgent as the first day they opened on Broadway.
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