Arthur Miller's introduction to 'A Streetcar Named Desire.'

Within Miller’s introduction to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ he expresses the experience of watching the play for the first time ‘had thrown open doors to another theatre world.’ Being invited by Elia Kazan to watch Williams play Miller illuminates that it wasn’t the play’s structure but the writing that left him ‘excited and elevated.’ Miller talks about how Streetcar engaged him and he ‘truly heard every word of it in the (that) first production.’ On stage, Williams was able to express any and all things beautifully.  In Miller’s opinion the audience was moved by the effect streetcar created, ‘I can still recall the inhaling breath across the auditorium when Blanche said ‘kindness of strangers’ line.’ Miller was inspired and held a new perspective on theatre through the work of Tennessee Williams and the characters. ‘Their character have turned to stone, their eyes to marble. Streetcar is a cry of pain; forgetting that is to forget the play.’