Two Character Play (Out Cry), The
- Full Length Play, Drama, Experimental
- 1M, 1F
- ISBN: SFUK-11916
Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power in one of Tennessee Williams’ most personal, mystifying, haunting, provocative, and oftern funny works.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama, Experimental
- 120 minutes
- Target Audience: Adult
- Performance Group:
- Large Stage, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Finding themselves deserted by their troupe and faced with an audience expecting a performance, actor/siblings Clare and Felice enact The Two-Character Play. As they dip in and out of performance, they find it difficult to differentiate themselves from their roles and reality from illusion. Also known as "Out Cry".
REVIEWS:
"The Two-Character Play, Tennessee Williams’s rarely seen fever dream of an eternal folie à deux, [doesn't] just strike sparks. [It's] a raging conflagration that keeps changing form and direction."
The New York Times
"Williams expanded his vision of theatre as a protean art, plastic and political, as fluid as film and as structurally solid as sculpture."
The New Yorker
"The writing feels almost avant-garde at times, but the author isn’t some young hot shot from the Yale School of Drama — it’s Tennessee Williams. The Two-Character Play, ... may not be among his masterpieces, but its Gothic-grotesque vibe weaves a compelling spell."
New York Post
Characters
- Casting: 1M, 1F
- Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
FELICE - an actor on tour; brother to Clare
