The new production company PUBLIC FROG joins FOUR HUMOURS to present a one-night staged reading of Tennessee Williams's rarely performed drama, THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY, at The Backyard Ballroom.
The cast is WARREN J. USEY and AURA "FEDORA" SHANNON. The director is ED BISHOP. MICHELE GARVAL is the stage manger, and MICHAEL MARTIN leads the talk-back after the performance.
About the show:
After winning critical and popular acclaim, Williams wanted to experiment with his writing style. His later creations had more in common with Samuel Beckett and the emerging Harold Pinter than with the style that the Williams name had come ...Read More
The new production company PUBLIC FROG joins FOUR HUMOURS to present a one-night staged reading of Tennessee Williams's rarely performed drama, THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY, at The Backyard Ballroom.
The cast is WARREN J. USEY and AURA "FEDORA" SHANNON. The director is ED BISHOP. MICHELE GARVAL is the stage manger, and MICHAEL MARTIN leads the talk-back after the performance.
About the show:
After winning critical and popular acclaim, Williams wanted to experiment with his writing style. His later creations had more in common with Samuel Beckett and the emerging Harold Pinter than with the style that the Williams name had come to signify. THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY was very experimental for its time. Language is heightened. Slabs of verbosity are juxtaposed with pauses and stunted sentences.
Although THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY is a marked departure from the naturalism of his classics, familiar Williams themes permeate: Confinement due to mental illness, repression leading to social isolation, the tyranny and claustrophobia that arise from impinging on another’s psychological and physical space. Clare and Felice--the actors as well as the characters they play--cannot, no matter how they try to delude themselves, escape the reality of their deteriorating mental states. Viewers are confronted with the darker truths of what it is to be human.
This play is considered to be his most personal interpretation of his perennial themes. Williams worked on it for over a decade. [Adapted from Wikipedia]
Friday, March 26th, 7:30pm The Arsenal at The Cabildo Four Humours and Public Frog Present Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play A staged reading starring Warren J Usey and Aura "Fedora" Shannon $15 General Admission $10 students & seniors w/ID with a discussion/talk back afterward 504.948.4167
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