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MUDDY WATERS THEATRE COMPANY BRINGS YOU ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST PROMINENT CONTEMPORARY DRAMATIST, AND ST LOUIS’ OWN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. JOIN US IN THIS HUANTING MEMORY PLAY WITH MURMURINGS OF GENIUS. VIEW CARRE OPENS FEB. 15TH
"…VIEUX CARRE ranks with his finest, and surely his most candid works…a late new flowering of the author's genius." —NY Daily News.
Muddy Waters Theatre continues the season with one of America’s most significant contemporary playwrights, Tennessee Williams. MWTC has received four Kevin Kline (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, and Best Ensemble) nominations for their past season’s critical success. Come join MWTC and Williams who has significantly contributed to American literature and cinema, "…the murmurings of genius…an authentic voice of the twentieth-century theatre." —NY Times.
The place is a rooming house in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the time the late Thirties. As narrated by The Writer (Luke Lindberg), a young man recently arrived from St. Louis, the action is concerned with interlocking lives of the various residents: a tubercular, painter (Kevin Beyer); a doomed young girl (Julie Layton) and her coarse lover (Jared Sanz-Agero); two aging "ladies" living in near poverty (Sally Eaton and Karen Wood); and the eccentric irrepressible landlady (Peggy Billo*). 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.
Tickets are $18.00 for adults and $15.00 for students and senior citizens. The production runs February 15-16 at 8:00 pm, the 17th at 7:00, 22-23 at 8:00 pm, a special matinee the 24th at 2:00, 28th at 7:00 29-March 1st at 8:00 pm. To reserve tickets in advance contact MetroTix at 314-534-1111 or 800-293-5949. For more information call 314-540-7831 or e-mail muddywaterstheatre@hotmail.com. MWTC is a member of the Theatre at St John's located at the corner of Kingshighway and Washington (5000 Washington Place) on the third floor of the United Methodist Church. Muddy Waters Theatre Company is interested in exploring the diverse voice of one playwright each season. For more information about one of St. Louis' newer professional theatre groups, visit us at www.muddywaterstheatre.com.
Look for our last production Night of the Iguana this May and the announcement of next seasons playwright.
Vieux Carre: “Filled with poetic insights and engrossing character studies, this haunting memory play, as produced on Broadway, marked a return by the author to the style and substance of his early masterpieces. "…VIEUX CARRE ranks with his finest, and surely his most candid works…a late new flowering of the author's genius." —NY Daily News. "Williams has always been frightfully honest, speaking from the heart with the unmistakable voice of an artist. We are lucky indeed to have so magnificent a poet in our midst." —NY Post. "…the murmurings of genius…an authentic voice of the twentieth-century theatre." —NY Times.
February 15-17, 22-24, 28-March 1
Directed by Anna Pileggi
Mrs. Wire…………………………Peggy Billo*
The Writer…………………….Luke Lindberg
Jane………………………………Julie Layton
Nightingale…………………..Kevin Beyer
Mary Maude…………………..Karen Wood
Miss Carrie…………………..Sally Eaton
Tye………………………………Jared Sanz-Agero
Photographer……………..Charlie Heuvelman
Sky…………………….Joshua Thomas
Night of The Iguana; "…an awesome and powerful new drama." —NY World Telegram & Sun. "…Williams' most mature work." —NY Daily News. "…the most fruitful and versatile exercise by our best living playwright." —NY Journal-American. "…Tennessee Williams at the top of his form" —NY Times.
May 9-11, 15-18, 22-24
Directed by Jerry McAdams
Shannon………………..Joshua Thomas
Maxine………………………Marybeth Sherr
Ms. Fellows……………….Sally Eaton
Hannah…………………..Julie O’Neill
Nanno……………………..Bruce Collins
Latta………………………….Hal Scharf
Charlotte……………………Lindsey Trout
* Denotes: “Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
For more information, please call 314-540-7831 or e-mail muddywaterstheatre@hotmail.com. MWTC is a member of the Theatre at St John's located at the corner of Kingshighway and Washington (5000 Washington Place) on the third floor of the United Methodist Church. Muddy Waters Theatre Company is interested in exploring the diverse voice of one playwright each season. For more information about one of St. Louis' newer professional theatre groups, visit us at www.muddywaterstheatre.com.
