STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

a powerful play (1947) by the US writer Tennessee Williams which won the Pulitzer Prize . The main characters are a rough and aggressive man called Stanley Kowalski and his wife’s delicate sister Blanche DuBois who is driven mad by Kowalski when she visits them in New Orleans . A film version (1951) directed by Elia Kazan , with Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh , won four Oscars .