two-hander

British  

/ ˌtuːˈhændə /

noun

1. a play for two actors

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Example Sentences

Two venerable stage actors, Reed Birney and Lisa Emery, brought a shining luster to Donald Margulies’s “Lunar Eclipse,” a whisper-quiet two-hander about a long-married couple reckoning with the vagaries of the past, and how life’s afflictions have led them to drift apart.

From The Wall Street Journal

The film is a two-hander shared by Oscar winners: a formidable Russell Crowe as Göring and a squirrely Rami Malek as Kelley.

From Los Angeles Times

“It was like déjà vu with Rhea Seehorn. I hate saying I wasn’t aware of her prior to us auditioning and casting her. But she was just fantastic from Day 1. What Peter and I saw in her was a potential to take a show that, at the beginning, was about one character and make it a two-hander. And I just knew very, very quickly in the early life of ‘Better Call Saul’ that I wanted to work with her again after it was over.”

From Los Angeles Times

It's the first line Jack Lowden speaks in The Fifth Step, a two-hander play that focuses on the relationship between a recovering alcoholic and his sponsor.

From BBC

Doherty will likely win for the series’ third episode, a taut two-hander with Owen Cooper.

From Los Angeles Times