playgoers we do—nothing happens. And the play has no structures other than the interweaving of caricatured characters. Yet it has a haunting nature — you leave the theater with the impression of having been told a secret. Not necessarily a truth, but a secret . . . And it is unquestionably, the murmurings of genius, not a major statement. Yet beneath those murmurings, through the meanderings, is an authentic voice of the 20th-century theater. It is slight but not negligible. Which, considering so many dramas, is a pleasant reversal." The play has been produced many times since its premiere in New York. A critic covering a 2008 production in St. Louis wrote, "This semi-autobiographical account of an innocent young writer being exposed to illness and death, love and violence in a seedy boarding house intrigues both as one of Williams' earliest — and also as one of his final — works." References External links Vieux Carré at the Internet Broadway Database 1977 plays Broadway plays Plays by Tennessee Williams Plays set in New Orleans Autobiographical plays New Directions Publishing books