Bus Stop is a 1955 play by William Inge. The 1956 film of the same name was 'opened up' in the beginning to include scenes on the bus and in places away from the diner.

Bus Stop plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis,. William Inge. Number of Acts. First Produced. Of the cafe and the bus driver who have previously only spent time in passing, find. Bus Stop - William Inge - Free download as PDF File (.pdf) or view presentation slides online. BUS STOP ACT I The entire play is set inside a street-corner. Then Carl, the bus driver, comes in, followed by Grace.

Characters[edit]

Bus Stop is a drama, with romantic and some comedic elements. It is set in a diner in rural Kansas, about 25 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri during a snowstorm from which bus passengers must take shelter. The characters are:

• Grace Hoylard – Owner of the diner. She is 40ish, and pretty in a fading, hard-bitten way. She has a passionate side to her nature, loving a good fight and the attentions of a good man.
• Elma Duckworth – An intelligent, but naive and impressionable high school girl. She is Grace's waitress.
• Will Masters – The local sheriff. Brusque in manner, but goodhearted and a staunch Christian, described as a 'deacon of his church'. A highly 'moral' man in the general sense of the word.
• Dr. Gerald Lyman – A college philosophy professor who is articulate and charming but cannot hold a position, partially due to his resistance to any kind of authority, and partially due to his unfortunate taste for young women. He also has an obvious drinking problem.
• Cherie – A pretty young woman who comes from a difficult 'hill folk' background, and has left her innocence far behind. She is an aspiring nightclub singer, but has never worked in any establishment above the level of 'cheap dive'.
• Bo Decker – A brash young cowboy with boorish manners that hide a naivete almost as profound as Elma's. He has convinced himself that Cherie will be his bride, though Cherie wants nothing to do with him.
• Virgil Blessing – An older, wiser cowboy who has become a father figure to Bo (who was orphaned at the age of 10) as well as Bo's head ranch hand.
• Carl – The bus driver, who has an ongoing 'just passing through' relationship with Grace. As referenced repeatedly, this is purely sexual in nature.

Synopsis[edit]

The play is set in a diner about 25 miles west of Kansas City in early March 1955. A freak snowstorm has halted the progress of the bus, and the eight characters (five on the bus) have a weather-enforced layover in the diner from approximately 1 am to 5 am. Romantic or quasi-romantic relationships include Grace and Carl, Professor Lyman and Elma, and Cherie and Bo. Virgil and Will are the older authority figures outside the relationships.

Broadway[edit]

Bus Stop opened on March 2, 1955 and closed on April 21, 1956, running for a total of 478 performances. The opening night starred Albert Salmi as Bo and Kim Stanley as Cherie, and the play was directed by Harold Clurman.

The play was nominated for four Tony Awards in 1956: Best Play (written by William Inge; produced by Robert Whitehead and Roger L. Stevens); Best Featured Actress in a Play (Elaine Stritch); Best Scenic Design (Boris Aronson); and Best Director (Harold Clurman).

In 1996, there was a short-lived revival of the play that ran for 29 performances.

There was also a musical, again involving Logan, titled Cherry (1972).

Revivals[edit]

In 2010 and 2011 Bus Stop received three productions in Great Britain including an acclaimed production directed by James Dacre that played at the New Vic and Stephen Joseph Theatres. The Guardian wrote of this production that 'there is something beguiling about this forlorn slice of Americana, which mediates on the distances between towns and the distances between people, like an Edward Hopper painting with dialogue.'

Film[edit]

In 1956, Joshua Logan directed a film adaptation of the play starring Marilyn Monroe as Cheri and Don Murray as Bo.

Television[edit]

In August 1982, Bus Stop was presented on HBO, a special filmed performance of the play at the Claremont Theater in California, directed by Peter Hunt. It starred Tim Matheson as Bo Decker and Margot Kidder as Cherie.

The play became a 26-episode American drama series that aired on ABC from October 1, 1961 until March 25, 1962.

External links[edit]

• Bus Stop at the Boston University Theatre at ArtsEditor
• Bus Stop (1955 production) at the Internet Broadway Database
• Bus Stop (1996 revival) at the Internet Broadway Database
• Bus Stop (1982 TV movie) on IMDb

Contents.Early years Inge was born in, the fifth child of Maude Sarah Gibson-Inge and Luther Clay Inge. William attended and graduated from the in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Drama. At the University of Kansas he was a member of the Nu chapter of. Offered a scholarship to work on a Master of Arts degree, Inge moved to, to attend the, but later dropped out.Back in Kansas, he worked as a laborer on state highways and as a news announcer. From 1937 to 1938 he taught English and drama at Community High School in. After returning and completing his Master's at Peabody in 1938, he taught at in, from 1938 to 1943. Career Inge began as a drama critic at the St.

Louis Star-Times in 1943. With 's encouragement, Inge wrote his first play, (1947), which was staged at ' Theatre '47 in, Texas. As a teacher at between 1946 and 1949, he wrote. It ran on Broadway for 190 performances in 1950, winning for.

(The 1952 film adaptation won both an and a for Shirley Booth. Directed a 1955 adaptation for Dutch television, and NBC aired another TV production in 1977.) During his time teaching at Washington University, Inge's struggles with alcoholism became more acute; in 1947, he joined (AA). It was through AA that Inge met the wife of a member of his AA group whose name was Lola and, who through name as well as personal characteristics, was the person upon whom one of the lead characters in Come Back, Little Sheba, 'Lola', was based. Even as Come Back, Little Sheba was in a pre-Broadway run in early 1950, Inge was filled with some doubt as to its success. He expressed in a letter to his sponsor in Alcoholics Anonymous, 'If Sheba makes it in I guess it will go on to Broadway and if it doesn't I suppose I'll be back in St. Louis.

If it does make it to Broadway, I don't know when I'll be back.' Inge never had to return to St. Louis. Inge wrote two novels, both set in the fictional town of Freedom, Kansas.

In Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1970), high-school Latin teacher Evelyn Wyckoff loses her job because she has an affair with the school's black janitor. The novel's themes include spinsterhood, racism, sexual tension and public humiliation during the late 1950s. Polly Platt wrote the screenplay for the starring Anne Heywood as Evelyn Wyckoff. The film was released under several titles: The Shaming, The Sin, Secret Yearnings and Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff.My Son Is a Splendid Driver (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1971) is an autobiographical novel that traces the Hansen family from 1919 into the second half of the 20th century. The novel received praise from Kirkus Reviews:Mr. Inge's novel, told in the form of a memoir, is a little more extended than Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff and though there's a slackening of structure and splintering of content towards the second half, the first part is immaculate in both design and focus.

It features the early years of Joey, the narrator here, and there are lovely scenes, as clear as the summer sunlight, with his family and on visits to assorted relatives. Will be available the guardian of light for machine. The time lag between Joey and his older brother Jule—his mother's favorite, my son the splendid driver, and an attractive playboy of this midwestern world—will never be reconciled. Even long after Jule's early death from a wanton incidental. Here Act I breaks away from Act II, a whole psychic anatomy of Joey's years as a young man in compressed and fractured incidents—one replayed from Miss Wyckoff and one which seems unnecessary (his parents' ). Thus Joey grows up impaired, never resolving his relationship with his absentee father or insufficiently loving mother, and ends up with his 'aloneness like a corridor that has no end'. Inge has told his story of life and death and all those spaces in between with a gentleness and probity which gives his novel a persistence few writers achieve.During the early 1970s Inge lived in Los Angeles, where he taught playwriting at the.

His last several plays attracted little notice or critical acclaim, and he fell into a deep depression, convinced he would never be able to write well again.Death and legacy Inge died of suicide by poisoning on June 10, 1973 at the age of 60 and is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery,.Inge has a star on the.There is a named for William Inge in Murphy Hall at the University of Kansas.Inge is a member of the, inducted posthumously in 1979.Since 1982, Independence Community College's William Inge Center for the Arts in his hometown, has sponsored the annual William Inge Theatre Festival to honor playwrights. The William Inge Collection at the college is the most extensive collection of Inge material, including 400 manuscripts, films, correspondence, theater programs, and other related items.The March 2008 issue of featured interviews by playwright Adam Kraar of former Inge House resident playwrights Marcia Cebulska, Lydia Stryk, and, relating how Inge's life and work has influenced them. Retrieved May 9, 2011. Inge Connell, Helene (2014). Bryer, Jackson R.; Hartig, Mary C. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.

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Retrieved September 15, 2016.Further reading. Johnson, Jeff. William Inge and the Subversion of Gender: Rewriting Stereotypes in the Plays, Novels, and Screenplays. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2005. Radavich, David.

'William Inge's Dramatic Mindscape.' South Dakota Review 42:3 (Fall 2004): 49-69. Voss, Ralph F. A Life of William Inge: The Strains of Triumph.

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