ITA brings Rebecca Frecknall’s multi Olivier-Award-winning A Streetcar Named Desire to Amsterdam
After sold-out runs in London and New York, multiple Olivier Award-winning director Rebecca Frecknall brings her adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams) to Amsterdam in an exclusive remake with ITA. With her well-known minimalist style and emotional acuity, Rebecca Frecknall transforms this American classic play into a contemporary, almost mythical story about fear, dignity and the will to survive.
A Streetcar Named Desire will premiere on Sunday 8 March 2026 in the Rabozaal of Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and will be on stage from 5 till 22 March. The performance will be accompanied by English surtitles from 11 till 22 March.
In this acclaimed Streetcar, produced in 2023 at the Almeida Theatre in London and praised as ‘a seductive, intense revival’ (Broadway World) and ‘a magnetic masterpiece’ (Variety), Frecknall dissects the raw core of desire, power and self-destruction. She exposes the emotional struggle between Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski and Stella with an intensity that is both physical and heartbreaking.
Frecknall's Streetcar is a play for a new generation: seductive and dangerously thrilling, but also uncompromising in its view of masculinity and domestic violence. As The Financial Times wrote: ‘Frecknall's production distils the tragedy to a bruising, intensely physical struggle, sweaty with desire, simmering with violence.’ This makes the production a perfect fit for ITA's move towards more socially relevant and urgent productions, such as Giovanni's Room, The End of Eddy and Prophet Song.
-|-In A Streetcar Named Desire, June Yánez, in the role of Stella, makes her debut as a member of ITA's acting ensemble. Hannah Hoekstra takes on the role of Blanche DuBois and Minne Koole plays Stanley Kowalski. Other roles are played by Sanne den Hartogh, Maria Kraakman and Felix Schellekens, among others.
ITA's announcement of a new production for March 2026 is the result of the postponement of The Copenhagen Trilogy to the next theatre season. Rebecca Frecknall, affiliated with ITA as director of Julie (2024) and The Architect (2026) and as Ibsen Artist in Residence, is looking forward to creating the Dutch-language remake of A Streetcar Named Desire with the fantastic actors of ITA.