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Picnic is a 1953 play by William Inge. The play premiered at the Music Box Theatre, Broadway, on 19 February 1953 in a Theatre Guild production, directed by Joshua Logan, which ran for 477 performances. The original cast featured Ralph Meeker, Eileen Heckart, Arthur O'Connell, Janice Rule, Reta Shaw, Kim Stanley and Paul Newman.
- William Ralph Inge
- 1953
A small Kansas town in the 1950s is the setting for William Inge’s bittersweet melodrama Picnic, which explores themes of sexuality, repression, rites of passage, and disappointment.
"Picnic" is a three-act play written by William Inge, the author of "Bus Stop" and "Come Back, Little Sheba." Set in a small town in Kansas, Picnic details the lives of "ordinary" Americans, from hopeful widows and embittered spinsters to idealistic teenagers and restless wanderers.
In the early 1950s he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, including Picnic, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the "Playwright of the Midwest ". Early years.
Picnic, drama in three acts by William Inge, produced and published in 1953 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize in the same year. This popular play about a group of lonely women in a small Kansas town whose lives are disrupted by the appearance of a virile, charming drifter captures the frustrations and.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
When William Inge’s play Picnic opened on Broadway in 1953, it received much popular and critical acclaim.
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Oct 26, 2014 · Watch a Full play online- performed with some great cast! Special Thanks for helping finance the recording: Rena Mekho, Amber Boetger, and Noelle Parker. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3901928 ...
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