Bus stop william inge script pdf9/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Unlike the little known one-acts of Requiem for William, this was the last of Inge's four Broadway hits ( Picnic, Come Back Little Sheba, Bus Stop), all of which were made into films.Īctually Dark. was reworked from Further Off From Heaven, the very first play Inge wrote in 1945. That early version had a very brief life in a Dallas theater but was well enough received to encourage Inge to keep writing and by the time it was rewritten and re-titled Inge was a hot enough playwright to attract a director like Elia Kazan and big name actors like Pat Hingle and Teresa Wright to play Ralph and Cora Floyd and Eileen Heckart to play her blowsy, outspoken older sister Lottie. (The cast makes the much less subtle film worth seeing-Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire and Eve Arden, also Shirley Knight as young Reenie Flood and Angela Lansbury as Mavis Pruitt who's mentioned but never seen in the play). ![]()
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