![]() ![]() Born two years apart, in Mississippi, a few years before the First World War, both siblings were haunted throughout their life by the shadows of what Williams’s biographer John Lahr calls “the hate-filled parental drama” of their upbringing. One can imagine a doctor saying something very similar to Williams and his elder sister Rose. “I said, ‘Why, that’s absurd, my brother and I are terrified of our shadows.’ And he said, ‘Yes, I know that, and that’s why I admire your courage so much.’.” Created, like all Williams’s plays, from the marrow of his life, it’s a troublingly strange two-hander about two siblings acting out a play in an abandoned theatre, and is revived this month at Hampstead, more than 50 years after it first premiered there. ![]() ‘A doctor once told me that you and I were the bravest people he knew,” says Clare to her brother Felice in Tennessee Williams’s rarely performed 1967 drama The Two Character Play. ![]()
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