Original burlesque play
A Peep Show Named Desire
A Tennessee Williams-inspired vaudeville exploring the B-side of Blanche DuBois with joy, resilience, puppetry, striptease, drag, live music, and sideshow.
About the show
Blanche gets to be the lead.
Premiered in 2021 at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, the show begins before the events of A Streetcar Named Desire and imagines a broader life for Blanche beyond the familiar ending.
Its narrative unfolds through variety acts (including puppetry, striptease, drag, live music, clowning, and sideshow) to create a theatrical experience that is funny, strange, compassionate, and unmistakably Lefty.
“The journey is not easy for Lefty’s Blanche, but this version of the character gets to experience laughter and joy that is not generally available to her in A Streetcar Named Desire.”— Bess Rowen, “Waiting for Lefty”