Vieux Carré
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 2, 2011
Closed Mar 13, 2011
Opened Feb 2, 2011
Closed Mar 13, 2011
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Like Williams' first big success The Glass Menagerie, Vieux Carré (1977) is a "memory play," set in the boarding house in New Orleans where Williams himself stayed as a young man during the Depression. The young writer, as narrator, 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 Carré, the Group experiments with new modes of expression for Williams' lyric voice.
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The pounding disco beat that occasionally courses underneath Elizabeth LeCompte's new staging for the Wooster Group of Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carré, now at the Baryshnikov Arts Center's Jerome Robbins Theatre, may seem to have little place in a play that's set in a 1930s New Orleans boarding house. Similarly, the actors often seem to be parodying Williams' pungent lyricism with line readings that come straight out of Southern Gothic movies like the 1964 cult classic, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.
But both the music and the approach to the text, as well as the company's use of multimedia and other anachronisms, serve a larger purpose in this frequently captivating, but ultimately o[...]