Blanche, Stella's older sister, until recently a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi. She arrives in New Orleans a loquacious, witty, arrogant, fragile, and ultimately crumbling figure. Blanche once was married to and passionately in love with a tortured young man. He killed him...

David Williamson, widely regarded as Australia's most successful playwright, has created a very controversial and very "Australian" glimpse of his country's society during the early 1970s. A key theme in the play is the myth of the typical Aussie mateship, where every "good mate" stands by and...

The play "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller takes place almost entirely in the head of its main protagonist, Willy Loman. The play continually evolves through a series of flashbacks to the past and flashes of what Willy is actually experiencing in the present. This allows the viewer ...