“There’s no such thing as an inescapable corner with two people in it,” the actor and playwright Felice tells his sister, Clare, an actress, late in the second act of Tennessee Williams’s dense absurdist farrago “The Two-Character Play.” Read more...
Here they are, New York, the ultimate brother-and-sister act, a pair of genetically matched hams who combine the narcissism, fearfulness, shabbiness and splendor of every actor who ever walked the boards. They are also competitive and codependent in a fierce, scary way that is particularly associated with show people and siblings. Just put them on a stage, then step back and watch them burn, possibly to a pile of ashes. Read more...
One of the weirdest, most unclassifiable plays of the year isn’t at a hip Tribeca venue but in Midtown, next door to “The Gazillion Bubble Show.” 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. Read more...
Rob Sedgwick and Elize (Lisi) Russell will temporarily star in the Off-Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams' rarely seen The Two-Character Play, directed by Gene David Kirk, playing at New World Stages / Stage 5. Read more...
Sitting in the orchestra of New World Stages on 50th Street in Manhattan on Labor Day eve – I am sinking into my seat which seems to sag backward before the small stage – on which are situated a couch and a chair covered in drop cloths spattered with paint. Read more...
On the theater front, there were a number of challenging and beautiful plays including Tennessee Williams' beguiling Two-Character Play, running through September 29. Read more...
Delicious surreal theatrical games are featured in Tennessee Williams’ Southern Gothic drama of brother and sister actors of a failed theater company where the characters in a play-within-a-play mirror the duo’s real-life desperation. Read more...
Like so many kids who find themselves cooped up inside on a long afternoon, Felice and Clare, the brother and sister in Tennessee Williams' seldom-performedThe Two-Character Play, put on a show. Read more...
So on Sunday July 7th I decided to treat myself to an Off-Broadway show and as I was looking, the one that caught my eye was The Two Character play starring Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Child’s Play, Lord of the Rings) and Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction, The Fisher King). Read more...
Tennessee Williams is known for his strong plots and sharp characterizations which carry his plays to dramatic resolutions, uplifting as in Suddenly Last Summer or convulsive as in A Streetcar Named Desire. Oftentimes, Williams foreshadows how he will spin his characters toward a satisfying or upsetting climax. Read more...
The oldest and newest of this quartet (of plays) turned out to be its prizes... The Two-Character Play, an eerily personal, hermetic work that I doubt I'll ever love in any version, was handled so impressively by Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif, under Gene David Kirk's direction, that it made the sensation of being locked for two hours inside Williams' tormented brain at its most nervously echolalic seem worthwhile, perhaps even ennobling. Read more...
Back in April I was looking forward to Amanda Plummer and Bradley Dourif lighting up off-Broadway in “The Two Character Play.” I’m glad to report the show’s enjoying a healthy run through September 1, and is a must-see Read more...
Connoisseurs of eccentric and flamboyant acting might have guessed that pairing Brad Dourif and Amanda Plummer on stage would produce a highly combustible collision of tics, wild mannerisms and crazy eyes. And these actors don't disappoint in this production of a late and hellishly difficult Tennessee Williams play (through September 1), which was written after the unhappy playwright had been confined for three months to a mental hospital. Read more...
Gothic mystery with a dash of Grand Guignol. This fascinating, funny, and even quite moving work was one which Williams considered his most beautiful play since "A Streetcar Named Desire." In its own unusual way there is a great deal of sorrowful beauty in this enigmatic, but rewarding work. Read more...
Tennessee Williams peers at the psyches of the lonely, damaged, and possibly insane with his rarely performed work “The Two-Character Play.” Brother and sister acting team Felice (Brad Dourif) and Clare (Amanda Plummer), apparently the heads of a company of touring actors, arrive at their latest performance venue to find the entire backstage area deserted and the set only half-erected. Read more...
"The Two Character Play" is a lesser-known gem by one of America’s greatest and most prolific playwrights, Tennessee Williams. The story focuses on Felice (Brad Dourif) and Clare (Amanda Plummer), two sibling actors who have been abandoned by their troupe while on tour. Read more...
The powerful acting duo is the prime attraction in this revival of Tennessee Williams’s drama about a volatile, haunted brother-sister relationship that probably reflects the author’s painful feelings for his own mentally ill, institutionalized sister. The intense play highlighted by emotionally potent and sometimes poetic sequences rambles repetitiously, but is a colorful showcase for the performance skills of its co-stars, Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif. Read more...
Here we go again with the current trend to include the playwright's name affixed to the title, as if without it there would be no recognition or interest. That would be partially true if this dark and insular, illuminating and accessible (yes, all of that) play by one of America's most acclaimed writers of dramatic literature didn't re-emerge now and then because of the interest of an insightful director. Read more...
It's hard to avoid ticking off a bunch of European names when writing about Tennessee Williams' Two-Character Play. Specifically, the names of Samuel Beckett, Luigi Pirandello, and the great Harold Pinter. After all, consider the premise of Williams' script: a pair of actors, abandoned by their troupe, have landed in a run-down theater with an audience expecting a performance. Slipping in and out of the play-within-the-play, they slowly start to reveal the history of violence and disillusionment that has led them here. Read more...
Tony and Emmy winner Amanda Plummer will return to the New York stage in the Off-Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams' rarely-seen The Two-Character Play at New World Stages. The production, directed by Gene David Kirk, will also star Academy Award-nominated actor Brad Dourif ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"). Previews will begin June 10 with an official opening June 19. Read more...
Wondering what our Wiress will be up to this summer? According to the New York Times, Amanda Plummer will be returning to the New York stage by starring in Two Character Play. The show will preview on 6/10/13 and open on 6/19/13. The Tony Award-winning actress Amanda Plummer (“Agnes of God”) will return to the Read more...
Tony and Emmy Award winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God) and Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) met the press on Tuesday, May 7 to preview the upcoming off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play, in which they will star beginning June 10 at New World Stages. Gene David Kirk directs the rarely seen drama, which opens June 19. Read more...
Tony and Emmy winner Amanda Plummer will return to the New York stage in the Off-Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams' rarely-seen The Two-Character Play at New World Stages. The production, directed by Gene David Kirk, will also star Academy Award-nominated actor Brad Dourif ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"). Previews will begin June 10 with an official opening June 19. Read more...
American Express Card members will have the first opportunity to purchase tickets to see Tony Award winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God, Pulp Fiction) and Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) unite their white-hot talents for the highly anticipated production of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). Previews begin Monday, June 10. Read more...
The Tony Award-winning actress Amanda Plummer (“Agnes of God”) will return to the New York stage for the first time 15 years in the Off Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams’s “Two-Character Play,” the show’s producers announced on Monday. The production, to be directed by Gene David Kirk, will also star the Academy Award-nominated actor Brad Dourif Read more...
Tony and three-time Emmy Award winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God) will be returning to the New York stage for the first time since her 1998 off-Broadway performance in Killer Joe. She will star in the off-Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play, alongside Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) at New World Stages. Performances are scheduled to begin on June 10, with an Read more...
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