PICNIC by William Inge

“Picnic is a memory of women, all sorts of women – beautiful, bitter, harsh, loving, young old, frustrated, happy – sitting on a front porch on a summer evening.” – William Inge

Making the ordinary become extraordinary with sensitivity and honesty is the reason why William Inge’s PICNIC won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and ran for 477 performances on Broadway. By exploring the lives of everyday people in small circumstances with ambitious observation, Inge’s greatest quality as a 20th century playwright was his ability to create a detailed portrait of the dynamics of family, friends and neighbors that is more truthful and more complicated than you realize. PICNIC remains a universal story of women, as well as men, who struggle against the restraints of society’s rules in order to make choices that reflect their own identity and personal discovery.

Directed by Linda Sutherland.

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Image Credit: PICNIC, Rhode Island College, 2016. Photograph by Nicole Flechette.