Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

William Inge

Literature & Fiction

Andre Deutsch

Four Plays: Come Back, Little Sheba / Picnic / Bus Stop / The Dark at the top of the Stairs (Paperback) by William Inge

Four Plays: Come Back, Little Sheba / Picnic / Bus Stop / The Dark at the top of the Stairs

Grove Press : distributed by R

Written for a cast of 5 men and 3 women In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She's been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she's ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, "Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I'm gonna end up in Montana …" As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus d

Bus Stop

Dramas & Plays

Dramatist's Play Service

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

(4m, 4f) As told by Chapman: "The setting...is a modest bungalow in a small town near Kansas City, and here lives Miss Field, a widow, and her twenty-one-year-old son...The time is 1933-the Depression-and they are lucky to have jobs, she as a hospital nurse and he as a gas station attendant. The young man is petulant and demanding, and his mother is loving in a mournful way, for she wishes the boy were the man his late father was. Into the house moves a friend from long ago...a stranded tank-town actress. She finds sanctuary here in return for doing the cooking and housework; it is to be a temporary setup, just long enough for the actor she has consorted with to find another job for them in Kansas City ..." The actress and the son become involved in a brief affair, and he proposes marriage, only to change his mind the following day. Heartsick, the actress returns to the life she loathes, and the son decides to strike out on his own.

A Loss of Roses.

Inge, William

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Natural Affection.

Humor & Entertainment

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Picnic

Picnic Plus 3 : 4 Plays by William Inge - Come Back, Little Sheba; Picnic; Bus Stop; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Random House]

Written for a cast of 5 men and 3 women. In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She's been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she's ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, "Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I'm gonna end up in Montana …" As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver at last find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-age scholar comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works in the cafe also gets her first taste of romance.

Bus Stop (Library Edition Audio CDs)

L.A. Theatre Works

Viel Glück, Miss Wyckoff

Ullstein

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