FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Tennessee Williams' rare masterpiece, Out Cry, to be performed at the Boston Center for the Arts.

BOSTON: Company One announced today that they will produce the obscure Tennessee Williams play, Out Cry, at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street. Performances for this three-week run begin on Wednesday, December 1, 1999 and will end Saturday, December 18, 1999. Performances will be Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $18 and $15 for students and seniors, and can be purchased in advance by calling the Boston Center for the Arts Boxffice at (617) 426-2787.

Tennessee Williams' Out Cry depicts a terrifyingly powerful blend of reality and fantasy as two touring actors, brother and sister, are deserted by their company and are trapped in a decrepit mausoleum of a theatre. To satiate the expected audience, they enact The Two-Character Play; an illusion within an illusion in which Williams' masterfully infuses psychosis with humor in order to create his self-proclaimed cri de coeur.

"Williams has been the most consistently creative, if not necessarily the most consistently "successful," American play-write of the past half century." Tennessee Williams has said about Out Cry: "I think it is my most beautiful play since Streetcar, and I've never stopped working on it…" First presented in 1971 at The Ivanhoe Theatre in Chicago, Out Cry has long since been absent from major stage productions. Company One plans to resurrect this masterpiece as a follow up to their successful production of Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile, also performed at the Boston Center for the Arts.