Vieux Carre February 11, 2011

'Vieux Carre' (1977) is a "memory play," set in the boarding house in New Orleans where Tennessee Williams himself stayed as a young man during the Depression. The young writer remembers his artistic and sexual awakening there. Inhabitants of the house swirl up out of the writer's mind as archetypal Williams characters, longing for release and haunted by thwarted dreams. In The Wooster Group's version of 'Vieux Carre', the Group experiments with new modes of expression for Williams' lyric voice.