VIEUX CARRÉ
Overview
Renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams had a significant relationship with the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Throughout his career, Williams maintained a close connection to the festival and its vibrant theater community. He often attended productions and workshops, finding inspiration and camaraderie among fellow artists. The Williamstown Theatre Festival, known for its commitment to nurturing new talent and staging classic works, provided a fertile ground for Williams to showcase his plays and receive valuable feedback. The festival’s dedication to artistic excellence and its supportive environment fostered a creative synergy that greatly influenced Williams’ work, making his association with the Williamstown Theatre Festival an integral part of his theatrical legacy.
Prepare to be enveloped in the intoxicating world of Tennessee Williams’ autobiographical Vieux Carré like never before with an innovative immersive theatrical staging at the Airport Rooms in North Adams, MA. This innovative staging transports the audience to the gritty and vibrant atmosphere of a 1930s New Orleans’ French Quarter boarding house. As the play unfolds, the audience becomes an integral part of the narrative, wandering through the the dilapidated rooms and observing the characters in an intimate setting. The fusion of site-specific staging, stunning visuals, and powerful performances creates an unforgettable theatrical experience, blurring the lines between reality and fiction. Vieux Carré at the Airport Rooms redefines the possibilities of immersive theater, leaving the audience spellbound and emotionally transported long after the final curtain call.
About Margo Neely
Margo Neely is an internationally recognized polymath creator-inventor whose work pioneers new technologies, media forms, and cultural systems through practice, experimentation, and execution rather than trend-following pipelines. Working at the intersection of art, philosophy, technology, and human behavior, Neely conceives, designs, engineers, and launches original intellectual property that operates simultaneously as artwork, tool, and lived system.
Neely is best known as the inventor of the Neely Air Freestyle • Neely 33 Sound Shoe, a wearable drum-machine technology that fused music production, movement, and design into a category-defining object, achieving more than six billion in global reach organically. She is also the creator and director of Ladies Revenge Club, an award-winning television series named “Best of the Festival” and “Best Series” at New York Comic Con and New York Super Week’s Geekfest for its innovative narrative and production model.
Neely’s interdisciplinary practice spans art, writing, and invention, producing precedent-setting work studied, built upon, and activated across artistic, academic, and technological contexts, shaping models for how original ideas become durable cultural infrastructure.
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