In the play he wants to marry Cherie but because she doesn’t want to get married, so he kidnaps her, to get he.
The young cowboy Bo Decker is an aggressive man, his slogan in his life is that he takes whatever he wants. 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. 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. Lyman who is pretty drunk at this time and very suspicious, begins his seduction of Elma. When Carl walks into the diner, it becomes obvious that Grace and Carl are interested in each other.Īfter a little bit of a whispering conversation, they secretly go with each other upstairs.ĭr. By the end of the play they both get back together on the bus and head to Montana. 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.Ĭherie tries to escape from Bo, but the more talk, the more they argue about their issues in their relationship. Elma, the waitress, and Professor Lyman have a little bit of something going on between them, but this ends as the play ends. Cherie, who is a singer, is also in a little bit of a love mess with Bo, who is a young cowboy. Inge was renowned for his in-depth character studies, Bus Stop is no exception and offers a warm play about the intersecting lives of eight ordinary people.
During a winter storm a busload of weary travelers are forced to shack up at a roadside diner until morning. Written by William Inge, who appears briefly as a Protestant clergyman and who. Grace, the owner of the diner, and Carl, the bus driver, have a little bit of a relationship. Upon hitting Broadway in 1955 Bus Stop was an immediate commercial & critical success. Published December 1st 1967 by Dramatists Play Service (first published. 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. The play ‚”Bus stop” is set in a diner in early March of 1955.