Gettysburg Community Theatre Presents A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE This June

Gettysburg Community Theatre, the non-profit 501c3 organization located in the original Elks Lodge building at 49 York Street within the first block of Lincoln Square in historic downtown Gettysburg, will present their first non-musical in their 7 year history when they present the Pulitzer Prize Winning Drama A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. The show is playing two weekends only; Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm and Sundays at 2pm June 17-26, 2016. Tickets can be ordered online at www.GettysburgCommunityTheatre.org or by calling 717-334-2692.

As a special promotion, Gettysburg Community Theatre is offering "The Big Easy Ticket" available for Opening Night only. Opening night will include complimentary champagne punch and chocolate reception with the cast and crew after the performance.

A Streetcar Named Desire is set in the small New Orleans apartment of Stella and Stanley Kowalski. Blanche DuBois, Stella's older sister, is an attractive but fading Southern belle who arrives at the apartment with the news that Belle Reve, the DuBois family plantation, has gone bankrupt. Conflicts build between the three in the small, steamy apartment, with the brutish and sensual Stanley becoming increasingly cruel and violent. As a result, Blanche's already tenuous ability to separate reality from illusion becomes gossamer thin.

The show is directed by Michael Baker, who is the director of Littlestown High School Theatre, and is also well known for his direction of shows at GCT such as Camelot and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.

"One of the great modern tragedies", Baker says, "it presents complex characters in a naturalistic way as they attempt to pursue their own vision of the American Dream."

A Streetcar Named Desire features a cast of 11, and half of the cast are making their GCT debuts. The cast includes: Nikki Bull as Blanche DuBois, Madelaine Dudley as Stella Kowalski, Jeb Beard as Stanley Kowalski, Ryan Currey as Harold "Mitch" Mitchell, Erin DiNello as Eunice Hubbell, Beau Bowden as Steve Hubbell, Shane Miller as Pablo Gonzales, Austin Greene as the Young Collector and other roles, Raquel Anjaneen Rivera as the Flower Woman and other roles, Emily Smallwood as the

Nurse and other roles, and Ed Riggs as the Doctor.

Tickets are $18 plus tax/fees for the limited reserved seating in the intimate 80 seat theatre at GCT and may be purchased online at the theatre's web site at www.GettysburgCommunityTheatre.org to pick your own seats or by calling 717-334-2692 with credit card to purchase what seats may be left available. GCT is fully accessible and has an ADA compliant ramp at the back of the building. Special seating is available for patrons using wheelchairs or requiring other assistance. Please inform the box office of any special needs when ordering tickets.

Coming soon from GCT: Summer Musical Theatre Day Camps beginning June 13th, and 1776 the musical performs July 15-31. Tickets and registration available online.

GCT Mission Statement: To inspire creativity and confidence, provide cultural enrichment, and instill a love of the theatre arts in young and the young at heart through quality education, training and performing experiences in musical theatre.

Photo: Michael Baker directs Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire running June 17-26, 2016 at Gettysburg Community Theatre.

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