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The famous New York theatre collective The Wooster Group is back at the Holland Festival with their production of Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré. In a shabby rooming house where you can hear the loneliness “like an awful groaning in the walls”, a young writer struggles with his literary ambition, homosexuality, poverty and despair. Through him we get to know his fellow occupants, characters typical for Williams, barely surviving on the fringes of society, downtrodden by disease, decay and broken dreams. Williams wrote the first version of this strongly autobiographical work in the late thirties, but only finished it in 1977. With imaginative use of video, sound design and staging technology, The Wooster Group deftly translates the play to the 21st century.

  • © Franck Beloncle

  • © Franck Beloncle

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text Tennessee Williams direction Elizabeth LeCompte cast Alan Boyd Kleiman, Ari Fliakos, Daniel Jackson, Scott Shepherd, Daniel Pettrow, Kaneza Schaal, Andrew Schneider, Kate Valk light design Jennifer Tipton sound design Matt Schloss, Omar Zubair video Andrew Schneider production management Bozkurt Karasu show leader Teresa Hartmann stage manager Aron Deyo other videos Aron Deyo camera Daniel Pettrow technical assistance Daniel Jackson head electricity Kent Barrett costumes Enver Chakartash cineturgy Dennis Dermody special advisor Casey Spooner production The Wooster Group