BUS STOP

Cherie, a blonde nightclub performer is twenty years of age, but old beyond her years.  Bo, a virile rodeo cowboy, is a few years her senior, but is oh, so, young.  They are just two of a wonderful cast of eight characters in our January play.

• When:   Monday January 8 at 7:00
           Tuesday January 23 at 7:00
• Where: Room 10 (Monday) or 9 (Tuesday)
• What:    BUS STOP by WILLIAM INGE
• Who:     UUCPA Thespians
• Why:     To start the year with a poignant little drama.

The scene is a dingy little diner in a small Kansas town.  It is run by Grace, a mature woman who takes life as it comes, assisted by Elma, a high-school girl with stars in  her eyes.  It is 1:00 am on a March night when the west-bound bus pulls in – to find that a snowstorm has closed the road ahead and the scheduled twenty-minute stop turns into a four-hour one. We get to know the Will, the town sheriff, a competent man who can be tough when it’s necessary, and the bus driver Carl who welcomes the chance to get better acquainted with Grace.  The other two bus passengers are Virgil, a cowboy drifter who’s current project is trying to help Bo grow up, and Dr. Lyman a former college professor who is relieved that they have crossed the state line from Missouri.

Whichever character you are, you will be a different person when the bus pulls out a 5:00 am than you were four hours ago.  You can undergo this transformation on Monday January 8 in Room 10 or on Tuesday January 23 in Room 9.  Ideally we’ll have eight readers each night, but if we have fewer we can double up a couple of roles, or with more we can split a role or two at an act change. 

Send me an email thespians-info@uucpa.org
call me, or just show up on Monday, March 13.

UUCPA Thespians
Philip Hodge, Chair