In The Wooster Group’s version of Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré, the Group experiments with new modes of expression for Williams’ lyric voice.

Vieux Carré, written in 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.