Elisabeth LeCompte / The Wooster Group

The Wooster Group

Vieux Carré from Tennessee Williams

Archive 2009
Centre Pompidou
novembernov 19 – 23
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Vieux Carré
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte
Performed by Ari Fliakos, Ellen Mills, Kaneza Schaal, Scott Shepherd, Raimonda Skeryte, Kate Valk
Lighting: Jennifer Tipton
Video: Andrew Schneider
Sound: Matt Schloss, Omar Zubair
Production Manager: Bozkurt Karasu
Stage Manager: Teresa Hartmann
Assistant to the Director: Jennifer Griesbach
Technical Director: Aron Deyo
Additional Video: Joby Emmons
Master Electrician: Rob Reese]
Coproduced by Théâtre National de Strasbourg ; Wiener Festwochen ; Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Onda

This little-known play written a few years before he died, as well as certain of his short stories, revealed a different Tennessee Williams. The Wooster Group, addressing the inner conflict experienced by the great American playwright in the light of liberated New York avant-garde circles of the late seventies, forges a new mode of expression for Williams' lyric voice, refracting the misty past through the sharp, frank lens of the present.

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