Streetcar Named Desire as a comedy?

Question:Has this ever been attempted?

How would you make it funny?

Have you ever seen a production that was unintentionally funny?

It was a hoot on an episode of the Simpsons.

What other Tenessee Williams plays could be made comedies and how? He can be a major downer!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Has this ever been attempted?

How would you make it funny?

Have you ever seen a production that was unintentionally funny?

It was a hoot on an episode of the Simpsons.

What other Tenessee Williams plays could be made comedies and how? He can be a major downer!

It sounds like a dicey idea. If done skillfully, Tennessee Williams material already has lots of colors, including humor, built into it.

Aside from the Simpsons, I've never seen an intentionally funny production.

Maybe if it was done with the genders switched.

The Simpsons is inane at best, and they do stuff like that and it's just as inane. Ditto for Family Guy. Williams' work is what it is and isn't meant to be uplifting or funny. Period.

This would be a matter of doing something for its own sake, not in any way illuminating the text in a new or fresh way. There is definitely humor in Williams' work, but it works in service of the play, not for its own sake. Bad idea, unless you are doing this for strictly camp and over-the-top reasons, again offering nothing new from brilliant work. Supposedly Tallulah Bankhead late in her career attempted Blanche, and it was a sorry spectacle, not intentionally 'funny', but rather a sad coda to a fascinating woman's career.