Proving the axiom that friendship is always a work in
progress, Murray Nossel and Paul Browde leave nothing unsaid or unexplored in Two Men Talking, their frank, improvised
account of their friendship. Two Men Talking performs twice a week on
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30PM in an exclusive engagement through Saturday May
3 at The Barrow Street Theatre, 27
Barrow Street. The Off-Broadway premiere is
produced by Scott Morfee, Tom Wirtshafter and Jim Jermanok. Dan Milne is the
director.
"Each performance is shaped by the actors' mutual listening
and by their in-the-moment responses to familiar aspects of the story as well
as to the unforeseen confession.
According to the performers, every audience is unique in the quality of
its listening, and this, too, impacts the mood as well as the outcome each
night," describe press materials.
Two Men Talking
has been performed in South Africa,
London, Edinburgh,
Canada and Australia. Browde
and Nossel forged their friendship while attending, in the 1960's, an elite
Jewish preparatory school in Johannesburg,
South Africa. While they share a great deal – both are
white, Jewish, gay South Africans; both are psychologists; both pursued careers
in the theatre – their lives trace entirely distinct trajectories.
Nossel, an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, is
a PhD in social work. In addition to his
Oscar nominated Why Can't We Be a Family
Again? (2003), his other films have aired on HBO, PBS, and the BBC. Browde, a psychotherapist now in private practice,
was until recently an assistant clinical professor at New York University.
Two Men Talking
performs Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30PM.
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased thru Telecharge, at 212-239-6200,
or online at www.telecharge.com.
The Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue South, is now a hotbed of
literate unscripted theatre. The
critically acclaimed long-form improvisers TJ
& Dave return for their next
Barrow Street Theatre stint in March. TJ
& Dave and Two Men Talking
will perform concurrently that weekend.
