The Two-Character Play at Spooky Action Theater

The Two-Character Play

Spooky Action Theater
1810 16th St NW Washington

Caught up in an echoing theater, in an uncertain country, a pair of actors - brother and sister with leagues of history behind them - face off. Opening a window on the heart and the imagination becomes a spellbinding and dangerous enterprise. Williams called this "my most beautiful play since Streetcar."

Thru - Oct 27, 2013

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 3:00pm

Price: $25

Show Type: Drama

Running Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes with 1 intermission

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Washington Post - Highly Recommended

"...It’s hard to say what has sparked the sudden surge of interest in “The Two-Character Play,” but it was done a couple of seasons ago in London and just closed off-Broadway in New York (both staged by director Gene David Kirk), and now is getting a solid production here by Spooky Action Theater. The company’s wide church basement on 16th Street NW nicely accommodates the ramshackle environment that Williams called for, one that surrounds a recognizable stage with a bizarre dream version of a junky backstage area that includes a seated papier-mache giant gazing on from one side."

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- Nelson Pressley

DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended

"...A play-within-a-play, a set-within-a-set, and the juxtaposition of identity and personality between two characters are the primary set up for Tennessee Williams’ enigmatic, The Two-Character Play, currently on stage at Spooky Action Theater and directed by Richard Henrich."

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- Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

MD Theatre Guide - Recommended

"...The Two-Character Play may not have the universal resonance of the smoother and more linear works like Glass Menagerie. The problems and contradictions in the script are still all too apparent on stage. But its themes of frailty, mental illnesses, delusion, and survival, as well as how they’re reflected in late period Williams should be of interest of anyone interested in theater, and its performances a revelation in themselves."

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- Roger Catlin

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

If you are an enemy of ambiguity, and demand clearly defined, definitively resolved plotlines, The Two-Character Play will be a challenge. For the rest of us, though, it is a mostly delicious mystery, and in Spooky Action’s production, sturdy and delicate, breathlessly frantic and exquisitely paced.

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- Lorraine Treanor

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