Such explicit iconography doesn't serve the best interests of this 75-minute, two-character epistolary drama, directed by Mr. Dunlop and also starring Jim Dale.

"Three Hotels" is a two-character drama taking the form of three monologues.

Morgenstern wrote "Berry is skillful and affecting, occasionally ferocious, and subtle enough for two, in what is essentially a two-character drama."

"Blood Knot," the 1961 two-character drama that established the reputation of the playwright Athol Fugard, is not an easy play.

The two-character drama is a venerable, deceptively simple form, examples of which pretty much fall into two categories.

In Edward Albee's "Marriage Play," a two-character drama filled with questions, the question that crops up most frequently is, "What do you mean?"

Yet who is harassing whom in this two-character drama at the Orpheum?

The piece is like a two-character drama in which the soprano and the violinist mirror, provoke and comfort each other in volatile expressionistic phrases.

Such explicit iconography doesn't serve the best interests of this 75-minute, two-character drama, directed by Mr. Dunlop.

Or consider Athol Fugard's two-character drama, "Playland" (which is closing today at the Manhattan Theater Club).