Amanda Plummer, Brad Dourif To Star in Tennessee Williams’s ‘Two-Character Play’

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The Tony Award-winning actress Amanda Plummer (“Agnes of God”) will return to the New York stage for the first time 15 years in the Off Broadway premiere of Tennessee Williams’s “Two-Character Play,” the show’s producers announced on Monday. The production, to be directed by Gene David Kirk, will also star the Academy Award-nominated actor Brad Dourif (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”).

It will be Ms. Plummer’s first major New York stage appearance since “Killer Joe” in 1998. (She had a short run in “The Exonerated” at the Culture Project in 2003.)

Loosely based on Williams’s relationship with his sister, Rose, “The Two-Character Play” weaves in and out of reality as two actors, a brother and sister, are forced to perform for an audience after being deserted by their own acting troupe. A news release describes the play as “equal parts Southern Gothic thriller, black comedy and psychological drama.”

The play made its debut in in 1967 in London. It played only 12 performances on Broadway in 1973 under the title “Out Cry,” in a production that starred Michael York and Cara Duff-MacCormick. In Oct. 2010 Mr. Kirk directed a revival at London’s Jermyn Street Theater.

Previews begin at New World Stages on June 10, with opening night scheduled for June 19.