The Two-Character Play
From: Tuesday, 26th October 2010
To: Saturday, 20 November 2010
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Synopsis
Felice and Clare are two actors on tour, they are also brother and sister. They find themselves deserted by their acting troupe in a decrepit "state theatre in an unknown state". Faced by an audience expecting a performance, they enact The Two-Character Play, an illusion within an illusion. The play is partially autobiographical. Clare is loosely based on William’s sister Rose, and Felice on Williams himself.
Our Review:
29 October 2010
This darkly disturbing play, with elements of black comedy, is a deeply satisfying, totally engaging and enjoyable piece of theatre that shows off just how powerful and provocative Fringe theatre can be: in this intimate and intimidating space we are drawn into the post Pinter world of a brother and sister trapped by the past where, like Martha and George in Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, they enact and re-enact a traumatic event from their past from which they are unable to break free.
This rarely performed piece is a true lost classic by one of the most celebrated American dramatists of the 20th Century, Tennessee Williams, who called this his "most beautiful piece since Streetcar" and one which resonates with his own past and the descent into madness of his sister.
It is a play where reality and illusion mingle and the audience are left to attempt to disentangle, or not, the machinations of the Two Character play that the couple, a brother and sist...
Cast
Catherine Cusack (Clare)
Paul McEwan (Felice)
Creative
Tennessee Williams (Author)
Jermyn Street Theatre (Producer)
Gene David Kirk (Director)
Alice Walkling (Design)
Phil Hewitt (Lighting)
Phil Hewitt (Sound)
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