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{{Infobox play<br />
| name = Out Cry<br />
| image = OutCry.jpg<br />
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| caption = First edition (publ. [[New Directions Publishing|New Directions]], 1973)<br />
| writer = [[Tennessee Williams]]<br />
| chorus = <br />
| characters = Claire<br>Felice<br />
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| premiere = {{Start date|1971|07|08}} <br />
| place = Ivanhoe Theatre<br>[[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]<br />
| orig_lang = English<br />
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'''''Out Cry''''' is a play by [[Tennessee Williams]], his rewrite of ''[[The Two-Character Play]]'' which he had written in 1966 and which was staged in 1967 and published by [[New Directions Publishing|New Directions Publications]] in 1969. Williams began rewriting the play after its publication, and ''Out Cry'' premiered at the [[Ivanhoe Theatre]] in [[Chicago]] on July 8, 1971, with [[Eileen Herlie]] as Clare and [[Donald Madden]] as Felice. It debuted on Broadway at the [[Lyceum Theatre (Broadway)|Lyceum Theatre]] with a preview on February 28, 1973 and ran from March 1 to 10; the production was directed by [[Peter Glenville]] and starred [[Cara Duff-MacCormick]] as Clare and [[Michael York]] as Felice.<ref name="NYTimes1973-03-11" /> ''Out Cry'' was published by New Directions in 1973 – by which time Williams had already rewritten the play into a third version, again titled ''The Two-Character Play'', which New Directions published in 1975.<ref>Williams, Tennessee. ''Plays 1957-1980''. Mel Gussow and Kenneth Holditch, eds. New York: Library of America, 2000, pp. 987-88. {{ISBN|1-883011-87-6}}</ref> In a 1971 interview Williams said of the first version of ''The Two-Character Play'', "I wrote it when I was approaching a mental breakdown and rewrote it after my alleged recovery. I was thoroughly freaked out."<ref>Lahr, John. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh. New York: W.W. Norton, 2014, p. 484. {{ISBN|978-0-393-02124-0}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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<ref name="NYTimes1973-03-11"><br />
[https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F4071EFD3F54137A93C3A81788D85F478785F9 New York Times, March 11, 1973]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{IBDB title|3178}}<br />
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[[Category:1971 plays]]<br />
[[Category:Plays by Tennessee Williams]]<br />
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