Everyone loves to talk about STELLLAAAAAAA!!! But we’re exploring the life of her more melodramatic older sister Blanche. We peel back the veneer of social snobbery, purity and innocence in this character from A Streetcar Named Desire, to expose the lies, promiscuity, and tragedy beneath the façade of the fading southern belle.

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