In the course of its evolution, several earlier versions of The Two-Character Play 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 Out Cry , was published by New Directions in 1973 The third version (New York, 1975), again titled The Two-Character Play , is the one Tennessee Williams wished to include in New Directions' The Theatre of Tennessee Williams series.
It is this version which is presented in this ND paperback.