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“Desire”, life, love, lust and beauty. The depicted idea of the eminent and radiating title induces and consumes the audience with evocative and tense ideas for sexual innuendoes, capitalising the prerequisite performance for the play to involve dramatic sexual tensions. However, in contrast to the title, the melancholy and hoary surroundings of the old corner building emanates an ‘atmosphere of decay’, betrayal, self-embrace, ugliness and death. This contrast creates a poignant conflict between the ideal …

…with disbelief. The music played is muted, slow and blue, the materialization of miserable heart-rending feelings. The final words that are said show a hindsight of the entire play, that the life of Blanche and the disturbance that she created was like a poker game; full of risk, chance and bluff, where nothing is never what it seems, and after all is said and done, everything is forgotten or hidden by shame, arrogance or pride.