Bus Stop Script

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The play, “Bus Stop” by William Inge, was set in a 1950s American diner in Kansas. Along with the scripts informative description of the costume, this showed us a lot of the style and time of the costumes. The characters in general weren’t very rich and had to make do with what they had. William Inge Playwright. William Inge wrote Bus Stop, a play that first appeared on Broadway in 1955.Inge, who lived from 1913 until 1973, also wrote Splendor in the Grass and Picnic.Picnic earned.

Script

Bus Stop by William Inge


Bus stop script

The play ‚”Bus stop” is set in a diner in early March of 1955. A snowstorm has delayed the trip, so the 5 characters who are on the bus and the 3 who are in the diner spend around 1-5 a.m. together.

Grace, the owner of the diner, and Carl, the bus driver, have a little bit of a relationship. Cherie, who is a singer, is also in a little bit of a love mess with Bo, who is a young cowboy. Elma, the waitress, and Professor Lyman have a little bit of something going on between them, but this ends as the play ends.

The sheriff informs the two ladies in the diner about the bus stopping and that the passengers will be stuck there until the road is cleared from the snow.

Cherie tries to escape from Bo, but the more talk, the more they argue about their issues in their relationship. By the end of the play they both get back together on the bus and head to Montana. When Carl walks into the diner, it becomes obvious that Grace and Carl are interested in each other.

After a little bit of a whispering conversation, they secretly go with each other upstairs.

Dr. Lyman who is pretty drunk at this time and very suspicious, begins his seduction of Elma. He wants to meet with her in secret later on in the night, but Elma is too innocent to recognize that his intentions are less than honorable. The other two characters have a little protection role, because the sheriff had promised to protect Cherie, Virgil the older Cowboy is a good friend from Bo who helps him get over Cherie.

The young cowboy Bo Decker is an aggressive man, his slogan in his life is that he takes whatever he wants. This is what he does with woman too. In the play he wants to marry Cherie but because she doesn’t want to get married, so he kidnaps her, to get he.....[Volltext lesen]

THE BUS STOP
Genre: COMEDIC/DRAMATIC/MATURE ADULT
Cast: MALE (FEMALE)
Setting: A BUS STOP
Age range: 60-90 years old, mature adult monologue
Description:LAWRENCE stands at a bus stop. It is cold. He has just been to the grocery store. He talks to a woman in her 70s or so, who is also waiting at the bus stop.

Bus Stop Script William Inge

Bus Stop Script

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LAWRENCE

Bus Stop Script

I’m walking outta the damn food store carrying this bag of clementines—that’s all I got. Not even pushing a damn shopping cart. And some idiot with a Korean car almost runs me over! Some teenage kid driving, no doubt. Spikey hair. Playing games on his damn iphone, no doubt. Some lady behind me yanks on my elbow. She’s got her other hand holding some smart-allack kid’s hand and she says, “You all right?” and he copies her like some damn parrot and says, “You all right?” I jerk her hand off my damn elbow and tell her and her smart-allack parrot-kid I’m fine. And I walk to the bus stop ‘cause I gotta take a damn bus and I think, this kid almost runs me over and I’m the one who can’t drive anymore?
(shakes his head)
Not right.
(pause)
Not right for a damn second.
(pause)
And I could tell you about how I served this country and put in my time and how Americans don’t give a damn about the elderly, when we should be respected because we’ve been places and built things and dammit we’re still here.
(pause)
But it’s mostly…it gets me…because this is it—END OF EXCERPT
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