Audio By Carbonatix
Ever get something stuck in your head—something you want to create or write or build? And while you know you have the basic idea there, it just takes forever to come together? It happens to all of us at some time or another, causing us writer’s block or gumming up our creative works…and it happened to Tennessee Williams while he was writing The Two-Character Play. He spent the 1960s and early 1970s tooling with it, making revisions, doing re-writes; and what finally emerged was something so far removed from what people expected, it almost seemed like someone else wrote it. The Two-Character Play did tackle themes that Williams revisited throughout his career—confinement and sibling relationships, for example. But it was a surprisingly experimental piece, referred to by some critics as too avant garde. However, the prose contained in the play is elegant and even musical—and the insight into the legendary playwright’s deteriorating mental state is fascinating. WingSpan Theatre takes on this piece of Southern Gothic surrealism in their production at The Bath House Cultural Center, 521 East Lawther, between Thursday, October 9 and Saturday October 25. Actors Lulu Ward and Kevin Scott Keating tackle the intense—but rewarding—play in performances at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday evenings and at 2 p.m. Saturdays. Tickets are $18 to $22; visit wingspantheatre.com.
Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 p.m. Starts: Oct. 9. Continues through Oct. 25, 2014
