Felice and Clare are a brother and sister performing act who arrive at a decrepit “state theater in a state of unknown” and find themselves deserted by their troupe. Faced (perhaps) by an audience expecting a performance, they enact “The Two-Character Play” as their outcry from isolation, panic and fear – a Southern Gothic affair in which they spend their lives as prisoners in the rotting house where their parents met a bloody and melodramatic end. As they dip in and out of performance, they find it difficult to differentiate themselves from their roles and reality from illusion.
In a 1971 interview, Tennessee Williams said of The Two-Character Play, “I wrote it when I was approaching a mental breakdown and rewrote it after my alleged recovery. I was thoroughly freaked out…I think it is my most beautiful play since Streetcar, and I’ve never stopped working on it… it is a cri de coeur, but then all creative work, all life, in a sense is a cri de coeur.”
Additional Details:
Masks will be required for audience. Wheelchair Accessible.
