The Holly Theatre and North Georgia College and State University are proud to present Tennessee Williams' broadway classic, A Streetcar Named Desire, May 22-26, 2008.

When A Streetcar Named Desire opened on Broadway 61 years ago, it marked a major change in American theater. The stunned audiences present, as young performers Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy played the primitive Stanley Kowalski and the delusional Blanche DuBois, realized by the time the curtain fell, that everything they'd ever seen onstage up to that point had been artificial and shallow in comparison.

Rightly considered to be among the very best American plays ever written, Streetcar deals with a culture clash between two symbolic characters, Blanche DuBois, a pretentious, fading relic of the Old South, and Stanley Kowalski, a rising member of the industrial, urban immigrant class. Written in 1947 by American playwright Tennessee Williams -- for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948 -- it was both a critical and box office success.

The Holly Theatre and North Georgia and College and State University are pleased to present their first joint effort with this May production of Streetcar. The project was created by Daniel Tracy, head of the performing arts department at NGCSU, Colleen Green, Artistic Director of the Holly Theatre Company and David Rothel, previous Artistic Director of Black Bear Dinner Theatre. Birthed from those early meetings was the North Georgia Classic Theatre Project, which hopes of be the first of many community collaborative projects. The project features both students and community performers, and students will receive class credit at NGCSU for their participation. Featured in A Streetcar Named Desire are Daniel Tracy as Stanley, Alecia Gibson as Blanche du Bois and Christian Mims as Stella.

A Streetcar Named Desire will be presented at the Historic Holly Theatre, May 22-25, Thursday through Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 2 pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Holly Theatre at 706-864-3759 or visiting www.hollytheater.com.

The Holly Theatre is proud to work in a partnership with North Georgia College and State University to bring classic theatre to North Georgia.  The Historic Holly Theatre is located at 69 West Main Street, Dahlonega, Georgia.