Amongst my never-reads: A Streetcar Named Desire

for playing Blanche DuBois in which Vivian Leigh won her second Oscar. I just now had the curious experience of trying to read the synopsis of this play ("the most important of the 20th century") in Wikipedia--which sets the matter forth, probably, as clearly as it can be laid out--and failing to understand it, basically because I can not, willingly or no, suspend my disbelief: What are these people on about?  Exactly the same baffled revulsion (or nauseated bafflement) that comes over me when I try to listen to Pagliacci. I am, I fully realize, hopelessly vanilla. And Vivian Leigh, exquisite creature and consummate actress that she was, was bat-shit.