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Great two-handers#1
Posted: 9/5/16 at 7:17pm

Hi all,
Looking to read a few great two-hander plays. I'm open and would be grateful to any and all suggestions. 

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Great two-handers#2
Posted: 9/5/16 at 7:20pm

Venus in Fur by David Ives and I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard by Halley Feiffer. 

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Great two-handers#3
Posted: 9/5/16 at 7:27pm

Red

Fifty Words 

Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco. Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
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Great two-handers#4
Posted: 9/5/16 at 7:40pm

'Night, Mother 

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Great two-handers#5
Posted: 9/5/16 at 8:24pm

The Gin Game

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Great two-handers#6
Posted: 9/5/16 at 8:32pm

A Walk in the Woods

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Great two-handers#7
Posted: 9/5/16 at 9:42pm

The Mystery of Irma Vep, or any of the Tuna plays.

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Great two-handers#8
Posted: 9/5/16 at 9:55pm

Park Your Car in Harvard Yard is also really good.

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Great two-handers#9
Posted: 9/5/16 at 10:07pm

 A Steady Rain by Keith Huff.

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Great two-handers#10
Posted: 9/5/16 at 10:07pm

Same Time Next Year

 
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Great two-handers#11
Posted: 9/6/16 at 12:54am

Deuce 

The Blue Room

Having Our Say

The Mountaintop

 

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Great two-handers#12
Posted: 9/6/16 at 1:52am

Conversation at Night with a Despised Character

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Great two-handers#13
Posted: 9/6/16 at 2:29am

I personally thoroughly enjoyed Constellations by Nick Payne. 

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Great two-handers#14
Posted: 9/6/16 at 6:46am

The Two-Character Play by Tennessee Williams

Blackbird by David Harrower

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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Great two-handers#15
Posted: 9/6/16 at 9:49am

Thank you for your great suggestions, all. I appreciate it!

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Posted: 9/6/16 at 6:18pm

I used to love the Greater Tuna plays...will Google to see what's become of them. Also thinking about "The Kathy and Mo Show"... That one's on DVD if you can find it.

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Great two-handers#17
Posted: 9/6/16 at 7:01pm

Duet For One by Tom Kempinski, Circe & Bravo by Donald Freed

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Great two-handers#18
Posted: 9/6/16 at 8:28pm

I almost chimed in with "I'm Not Rappaport," but I'd be wrong. That was my perception before checking IBDB.com...

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Great two-handers#19
Posted: 9/7/16 at 12:20am

And the only major Broadway musical 2-hander I know of: I DO, I DO!

With off-broadway, you can add THE LAST FIVE YEARS.

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Great two-handers#20
Posted: 9/7/16 at 8:37pm

Red.

"when I’m on stage I see the abyss and have to overcome it by telling myself it’s only a play." - Helen Mirren
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Great two-handers#21
Posted: 9/7/16 at 9:56pm

Oleanna

 

Talley's Folly

 

Goblin Market; a two woman Off-Broadway musical by Polly Pen based on the Victorian poem by Christina Rossetti

Did you know that every day Mexican gays cross our borders and unplug our brain-dead ladies?
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Great two-handers#22
Posted: 9/8/16 at 11:36am

Hughie – O'Neill

Happy Days – Beckett

The Dumb Waiter – Pinter

Zoo Story – Albee

The Island – Fugard

Topdog/Underdog – Parks

Collected Stories – Margulies

Tuesdays With Morrie – Hatcher

Slowgirl – Pierce

Sex With Strangers – Eason

Heisenberg – Stephens
 

"Tracy... Hold Mama's waffles."
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