{"product_id":"9780811225724","title":"The Two-Character Play","description":"\u003cp\u003eA classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition.\u003c\/p\u003e Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power as two actors on tour—brother and sister—find themselves deserted by the trope in a decrepit \"state theatre in an unknown state.\" Faced (perhaps) by an audience expecting a performance, they enact \"The Two-Character Play\"—an illusions within an illusion, and \"out cry\" from isolation, panic and fear. \"I think it is my most beautiful play since \u003cem\u003eStreetcar\u003c\/em\u003e,\" Tennessee Williams said, \"and I've never stopped working on it....It is a \u003cem\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/em\u003e, but then all creative work,all life, in a sense is a \u003cem\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the course of its evolution, several earlier versions of \u003cem\u003eThe Two-Character Play\u003c\/em\u003e have been produced. The first of them was presented in 1967 in London and Chicago and brought out in 1969 by New Directions in a signed limited edition. The next, staged in 1973 in New York under the title \u003cem\u003eOut Cry\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by New Directions in 1973 The third version (New York, 1975), again titled \u003cem\u003eThe Two-Character Play\u003c\/em\u003e, is the one Tennessee Williams wished to include in New Directions' \u003cem\u003eThe Theatre of Tennessee Williams\u003c\/em\u003e series. It is this version which is presented in this ND paperback.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118490960112,"sku":"9780811225724","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811225724_p0.jpg?v=1763743488","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811225724","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}