Vieux Carre
From: Tuesday, 10th July 2012
To: Saturday, 4 August 2012
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Synopsis
Vieux Carre is set in a boarding house in the French Quarter of New Orleans between winter 1938 and spring 1939, and centres on a group of disparate characters, one of whom, known only as 'the writer', is reputed to have been Williams himself. Please note, Vieux Carre contains nudity, scenes of a sexual nature, and strong language.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 16 July 2012
Even as a busted flush in the late 1970s, Tennessee Williams still wrote like an angel, and Vieux Carré , which was premiered here at the Nottingham Playhouse and then the Piccadilly (not the St James’, as the programme has it; that was its New York venue), with Karl Johnson as the unnamed writer, Jonathan Kent as a beautiful bisexual and Sylvia Miles as the bizarre landlady, is a frank and fascinating companion piece to The Glass Menagerie.
It shows the writer (Tom Ross-Williams) passing through a New Orleans rooming house in the old French quarter, finding his voice, and his sexuality, in the rag-bag company of the chaotic landlady Mrs Wire (Nancy Crane), a lascivious old street painter (David Whitworth) and the electrified pairing of a disenchanted illustrator (Samantha Coughlan) and her flagrant gigolo (Paul Standell).
The casting is slightly askew in Robert Chevara’s production, but the close-up and personal in...
Cast
Samantha Coughlan
Nancy Crane
Eva Fontaine
Anna Kirke
Jack McMillan
Hildegard Neil
Paul Standell
David Whitworth
Tom Ross Williams
Creative
Tennlessee Williams (Author)
King's Head ()
Robert Chevara (Director)
Nicolai Hart-Hansen (Design)
Jonathan Lipman (Costume)
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