Bus Stop
From: Friday, 23rd July 2010
To: Wednesday, 3 November 2010
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Synopsis
A 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...
Our Review:
28 July 2010
William Inge’s Bus Stop brings together, for a brief moment one night, a cast of characters stranded in a rural Kansas diner by a March snowstorm. Lives and loves come into focus virtually in real time, and the sap is definitely on the rise. Cowboy Bo is pursuing nightclub singer Cherie, intent on taking her off to his farm and marrying her.
Young waitress Elma is flattered by the cultured attentions of East-coast academic Dr Lyman. Diner-owner Grace is rather more interested in how handsome bus driver Carl will pass the time now he has more than a twenty minute rest stop. And watching, and sometimes taking a hand, are local sheriff Will and Bo’s friend and mentor Virgil, who stands aside as Bo and Cherie make up and light out.
Inge himself said of the play that it was a ‘composite picture of the various kinds of love, ranging from the innocent to the depraved’, and director Stefan Escreet gives us a strong ensemble performance, nicely ...
Creative
William Inge (Author)
Theatre by the Lake (Producer)
Stefan Escreet (Director)
Martin Jones (Design)
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