Scene One:
The opening scene is in New Orleans, in the poor but colorful neighborhood where Stanley and Stella have their apartment. Outside, the people of the city go about their business. Stanley Kowalski and his friend Mitch enter walking on the street outside the apartment building. They are both in their late twenties, and they are rough, powerfully built men. Stanley calls for Stella, and she appears on the first-floor landing of their apartment. She is about 25 years old and somewhat fragile looking. Stanley tosses her some meat, and announces that he is going bowling. Stella wants to come to watch.
Just after she leaves, Blanche Dubois arrives; she looks at the address she has and looks at her surroundings, surprised that her sister Stella lives in such a place. She is helped into the Kowalski apartment by Eunice, the landlady. Eunice mentions that she saw pictures of the Dubois home, Belle Reve; she says pensively that a place like that must be hard to keep up.......
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