Showing Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams

Paperback. Pub Date: August. 2003 Pages: 116 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Born out of The journals the playwright kept at the TIME Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carre is not emotion recollected in Tranquillity. But Emotion re-created with all THE PAIN. compassion. and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938-39 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly intact. The drama takes its form from the shifting scenes of memory. and Williams's surrogate self invites us to focus. in turn. on the various inhabitants of his dilapidated rooming house in the Vieux Carre: the comically desperate landlady. Mrs. Wire; Jane. a properly ought-up young woman from New York making a last grab at pleasure with Tye. the vulgar but appealing strip-joint barker; two decayed gentlewomen politely starving in the garret; and the dying painter Nightingale. who tries to teach the young writer s...