The Two Character Play

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About the Show

Tennessee Williams' intense psychological thriller about abandoned actors returns to the stage.

Sam Yates ("Glengarry Glen Ross", "The Starry Messenger") directs "The Two Character Play" following his Olivier Award-nominated "The Phlebotomist". Williams' play follows a pair of actor siblings who must resort to a play for two players only when they find themselves left behind by their touring company.

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Williams called it “my most beautiful play since Streetcar” but unlike that better-known work, this slice of southern gothic is overtly complex, experimental and sometimes confounding.
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There's a glib, quiet melancholy rather than an anarchic boisterousness to the meta-theatrics here...But it's easy to spot the holes in the text and the reasons why it never reached the cult status of Williams' earlier classics.
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It’s also, in Yates’s hands, a stiletto-sharp comedy about theatre and the business of theatre-making, written from within – barbed and slyly funny.
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