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Vieux Carre
The place is a rooming house in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the time the late Thirties. As narrated by The Writer, a young man recently arrived from St. Louis, the action is concerned with interlocking lives of the various residents: a tubercular, homosexual painter; a doomed girl, Jane, and her lover, Tye; two aging "ladies" living in near poverty; and the eccentric irrepressible landlady, who veers from cruelty to sentiment in her treatment of her charges. Filled with evocative memories, and sharply etched portraits of its singular characters, the play centers first on The Writer, and his seduction by The Painter; and then probes into the fateful love of the Jane for her stud, Tyeshe dying of leukemia, and he torn between his debt to her and his urge to escape the consequences of her condition. It is a play of echoes and remembrances, a series of engrossing scenes, sometimes brutally candid sometimes delicately poetic, which are woven together into a rich and revealing tapestry, glinting with theatricality and throbbing with the feel of life.
CAST
Charles Black* - The Writer
Jen Danby* - Jane
Andre Herzegovitch - Photographer
Annette Hunt* - Mrs. Wire
Debra Khan-Bey - Nursie
Joy Martin* - Miss Carrie
Andy McCutcheon - Tye
Byron O'Hanlon - Sky
Daniel O'Shea - Nightingale
Margaret Ritchie* - Mary Maude
Andrew Weisell - Pickup / Cop / Judge
*Member of Actors
JEN DANBY (Director) Blanche DuBois in a staged readng of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE with Geoffrey Owens as Stanley Kowalski and Colleen Leone as Stella Kowalski, directed by Austin Pendleton, being produced by Mississippi Mud as a fundraising event for the Martin Luther King Center in Long Beach NY. With MUD: Sharon Tate in SHARON TATE IN HEAVEN, a new solo piece written and performed by Miss Danby in NYC this past March, directed by Austin Pendleton; Nina in SEAGULL69; Maggie in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF; Jane in VIEUX CARRÉ; Marilyn Monroe in her original solo piece THE BLONDE BOMBSHELL PROJECT; Catharine in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER; Vivien in the solo piece VIVIEN LEIGH: THE LAST PRESS CONFERENCE; Helena in LUST; all under Austin Pendleton's direction; Blanche Dubois, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at Mud Actors Lab (dir. Mr. Pendleton) and The Cherry Pit (co-directors Brian Lady and Mr. Pendleton); Vivien in ORSON'S SHADOW (dir. Lauren Reinhard). Select stage: HEDDA GABLER; VALPARAISO; THE RIMERS OF ELDRITCH (dir. Amy Wright, HB Studio). Film/TV/New Media: The Wooster Group "Dailies" as Paula in PAULA and BAD PICTURES opposite Jim Fletcher (GATZ); TRUE HOLLYWOOD SITTER; RUN #3; ALL MY CHILDREN. Founder & Artistic Director of Mississippi Mud and head of its educational wing and Actor Lab, and of This American Blonde Actress, as actress, teacher, director. Director: NADINE; SPRINGTIME; LUST (co-director Brian Lady) in the cycle WHAT OF THE NIGHT? by Maria Irene Fornes, with HB Ensemble; BALTIMORE WALTZ and TAN TAN at CW Post; co-directing CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF with Austin Pendleton for an upcoming revival with Mud and a performance in Long Beach NY for Project Hope after Hurricane Sandy at the Long Beach Public Library in November. BA Drama/Acting UT Austin, MA Acting LIU, Ph.D Acting Studies CUNY Graduate Center and co-founder of its Active Theatre Group. Ken Park Talent 212.566.8672 kenparkmgmt@aol.com. AEA, SAG-AFTRA. jendanby.com
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (Playwright) won two Pulitzer Prizes, for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1947) and CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1955). His other major plays include SUMMER AND SMOKE (1948), THE ROSE TATTOO (1951), CAMINO REAL (1953), SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (1959), and THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1961). In addition to his two Pulitzers, Williams was nominated four times for the Tony Award for Best Play, wining once, for THE ROSE TATTOO. (His last Best Play Tony Award nomination came 16 years after his death, for NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES.)
ABOUT MISSISSIPPI MUD PRODUCTIONS
Mississippi Mud Productions is is a made in the USA theatre company working with artists from around the world. Mississippi Mud Productions is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit 501(c)(3) http://www.mississippimudproductions.com
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LocationTom's Environmental Space @ The Alexander Technique Center for Performance
330 West 38th Street Suite 805
New York, NY 10019
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 13 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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