His later creations had more in common with playwrights Samuel Beckett and the emerging Harold Pinter than with what the name Tennessee Williams had come to signify.
Confinement due to mental illness, repression leading to social isolation and the tyranny and claustrophobia that come from impinging on one another’s psychological and physical space are all present in The Two-Character Play.
Clare and Felice, the actors, as well as the characters they play, cannot, no matter how hard they try to delude themselves, escape from the reality of their deteriorating mental states.
The "confining nature of human existence" was a major theme throughout his work and this play is seen to be his most personal interpretation.
Out Cry later premiered on Broadway, directed by Peter Glenville and co-starring Michael York and Cara Duff-MacCormick, and which ran from March 1–10, 1973 at the Lyceum Theater after one preview on February 28.)
The production starred Catherine Cusack and Paul McEwan, and was directed by the then-Artistic Director of the theater, Gene David Kirk.
[3] The Two-Character Play ran Off Broadway at New World Stages from June 19[6][7] to September 29, 2013,[7] starring Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif.
Spooky Action Theater produced the play, with David Bryan Jackson and Lee Mikeska Gardner, directed by Richard Henrich.
This production transferred to the NOLA Tennessee Williams Festival (Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company and Southern Rep co-producing), in March/April 2018.