Eleven Short Plays by William Inge - Acting Edition

THE STORIES: TO BOBOLINK FOR HER SPIRIT. Short play about the dedicated autograph hunters who lie in wait for celebrities outside of one of New York's famous restaurants. (1 man, 2 women, 2 boys, 2 girls.) PEOPLE IN THE WIND. Midnight, a bus station in rural Kansas, and a mixed bag of passengers-all victims of their differing fates. (3 men, 5 women.) A SOCIAL EVENT. A brief but revealing study of two young Hollywood hopefuls. (1 man, 2 women.) THE BOY IN THE BASEMENT. A gripping play about a middle-aged man who still lives with his parents and suffers the misery of a terrible and secret shame. (3 men, 1 woman.) THE TINY CLOSET. A fussy, middle-aged bachelor is upset to find that someone has been tampering with the lock on his closet-and has discovered a strange secret hidden there. (1 man, 3 women.) MEMORY OF SUMMER. A touching story of a woman who has lost her youth and replaced it with the questionable comfort of delusion. (1 man, 2 women.) BUS RILEYS BACK IN TOWN. Two young former lovers meet again, and reach out to each other over the pain and bitterness of the intervening years. (4 men, 2 women.)THE RAINY AFTERNOON. Two little girls and a boy play house, emulating their parents with a completeness that both alarms and reveals. (1 boy, 2 girls.) THE MALL. The mall of an out-of-season amusement park becomes the setting for a series of separate encounters, all interwoven into a totality of meaning. (4 men, 6 women.) AN INCIDENT AT THE STANDISH ARMS. A wealthy young woman and the man she has picked up reveal an inner squalor which their luxurious surroundings cannot hide. (1 man, 1 woman, 1 girl.) THE STRAINS OF TRIUMPH. Two young lovers on a hillside are overheard by his best friend-and rival for the girl's affections. (5 men, 1 woman.)William Inge is the author of 'Eleven Short Plays by William Inge - Acting Edition', published 1962 under ISBN 9780822205692 and ISBN 0822205696.