Minimalist ‘Streetcar’ production maximizes impact on unconventional N.J. stage

For all of its many themes, “A Streetcar Named Desire” is at its roots a play about the torrid space between people.

Tennessee Williams’ 1947 masterpiece interrogates the depths of the human psyche specifically and purposefully to locate the personal drives that foster the most volatile of relationships. The playwright then casts his creations into the crucible of New Orleans humidity and invites audiences to pity and empathize with the characters’ futile efforts to define themselves. The play’s lifeblood is the turbulence that Williams’ characters create when forced to coexist.