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“Bus Stop” by William IngeDirector: Lacey Manning
Why “Bus Stop”?
Intrigued by the setting of a 1950’s diner
Enjoy the contrast of the dark, cold, and snowy outside to the inside of the diner full of brewing relationships
Setting
“Bus Stop” takes place in a street-corner diner in a small town about thirty miles west of Kansas City, Missouri. It takes place from 1:00 AM to 5:00 on a cold night in early March 1955.
Characters
Elma Duckworth teenage waitress
Grace Hoylard owner of diner
Will Masters sheriff
Cherie chanteuse
Dr. Gerald Lyman retired college professor
Carl bus driver
Virgil Blessing ranch hand
Bo Decker young rancher and cowboy
Kelli O’Hara“Grace”
Sarah Hyland“Elma”
Norbert Leo Butz“Will”
Alan Cumming“Dr. Lyman”
Rachel Potter“Cherie”
Kyle Harris“Bo”
David Nathan Perlow“Virgil”
Danny Burstein“Carl”
Themes & Spine
Loneliness The play begins with
Elma and Grace discussing the absence of Grace’s husband
The play ends with Virgil alone outside in the cold
Needing to humble oneself to find love Cherie does not accept
Bo’s love until he analyzes his own actions and changes himself
Different types of relationships
Cherie and Bo
Question whether that actually love each other but still intend to marry
Elma and Dr. Lyman
Flirt throughout the play but go separate ways
Grace and Carl
Seemingly sexual relationship when Carl comes to the diner
Bo and Virgil
Virgil takes care of Bo most of his life and guides him change for Cherie
Bo +
Cherie
Style & Directorial Concept
Realistic Style: the middle ground between naturalism and heightened realism The appliances do not actually need to work
The setting should look like a 1950s diner
Directorial Concept Based on being realistic how the play would have been
performed in the 1950s
Reinforce theme of loneliness through ruling metaphor