Bus Stops at Theatre By The Lake

Hear the word Bus Stop and you probably think of the film starring Marilyn Monroe which was released in 1956. But William Inge’s classic began life as a play.

The Theatre By The Lake present this warm-hearted American romance set in a snowbound Kansas diner in the 1950s. When a disparate group of bus passengers are forced to spend the night together in Grace’s Diner, they each reveal how love touches their lives. Among them is Cherie, a night club singer, who is trying to get away from Bo Decker, a headstrong young cowboy who intends to marry her and take her back to Montana…

A contemporary and friend of Tennessee Williams, Inge won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Picnic and eventually became known as the ‘Playwright of the Midwest.’

Bus Stop is directed by Stefan Escreet with lighting by Nick Beadle and it runs at the theatre by the lake in Keswick from 23 July – 3 November.