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Picnic

Scottsdale Community College

July 9-July 10, 2008

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Picnic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by William Inge, provides a glimpse into idealized small town life and the loneliness and boredom that permeate the people who inhabit that world – that is, until a drifter appears on the scene and changes everything. Inge, a Kansas native, wrote autobiographically about familiar topics – especially the American heartland, often including solitary wayward characters in his stories; thus, Picnic serves as a mirror reflecting the playwright’s life and times. 

It’s Labor Day in a small Kansas town in the 1950’s as the play opens. The households of two of the town’s women, Flo Owens and Helen Potts, along with their various grown daughters, a spinster school teacher, and an invalid mother, create the all-female setting into which sensuous Hal Carter, a drifter with a past, enters. Carter, in exchange for doing odd jobs, rents a room in the local boarding house. Now the town – and especially its women – must deal with the psychological and emotional upheaval, and fantasies of escape, that Carter unwittingly brings into their lives.

Picnic earned numerous awards after appearing on Broadway in 1953 – the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Award, the Drama Critics Circle Award, the Theatre Club Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Award. It ran on Broadway for a total of 61 weeks and was widely considered a critical success. When it was made into a movie in 1955 staring William Holden and Kim Novak, it earned two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
 

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  Tickets: $10/General Admission, $8/Seniors and Students

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  July 9-July 10, 2008

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  Wednesday and Thursday 7:00pm

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  Theater 4301

  4301 North Scottsdale Road Scottsdale, AZ 85251

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  Scottsdale

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  • Event Name: Picnic
    "Picnic is a Treat"
    Comment posted by: theater fan from scottsdale, az, Jul 10, 2008
    

    A wonderful production with some amazingly talented young actors. Very effective and impactful weaving in of Inge's real life within the drama revealing how the playwright's own life struggles... Expand

    A wonderful production with some amazingly talented young actors. Very effective and impactful weaving in of Inge's real life within the drama revealing how the playwright's own life struggles informed his art. If you're free tonight, don't miss it. Collapse

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