The Two-Character Play

This rarely-produced play by Tennessee Williams features two characters: brother and sister Felice and Clare. They are actors on tour, apparently abandoned by their acting company in a decrepit “state theatre in a state unknown.” Presumably awaited by an audience expecting a performance, they enact The Two-Character Play, an illusion within an illusion, created from isolation, panic, and fear based, perhaps, on a terrible secret they’ve been guarding together for an unknown length of time. Charles Schick and Regina Bartkoff have taken this play and given it a life and believability not found in other productions, making it both harrowing and highly entertaining.