WATCH HERE!!!

August 13th, 2011

from 12:00pm to 2:00pm

at the Berger Performing Arts Center

1200 W. Speedway Blvd

Please have a prepared monologue.

You may also be asked to read.

For the Arizona Rose Theatre Company

production of:

‘BUS STOP’

written by William Inge

Directed by: Cynthia Howell

Production will run October 15th - October 23

Rehearsals will begin early September

SYNOPSIS:

The play is set in a diner about 30 miles west of Kansas City in early March 1955. A freak snowstorm has halted the progress of the bus, and the eight characters (five on the bus) have a weather-enforced layover in the diner from approximately 1 to 5 a.m. Romantic or quasi-romantic relationships ensue between Grace and Carl, Professor Lyman and Elma and Cherie and Bo. Virgil and Will are the older authority figures outside the relationships.

CHARACTERS

▪Grace Hoylard — Owner of the diner, a "grass widow". She is fortyish, and pretty in a fading, hard-bitten way. She has a passionate side to her nature, loving a good fight and the attentions of a good man.

▪Elma Duckworth - An intelligent, but naive and impressionable high school girl. She is Grace's waitress.

▪Will Masters — The local sheriff. Tough as nails and brusque in manner, but goodhearted and a staunch Christian, described as a "deacon of his church". A highly "moral" man in the general sense of the word.

▪Dr. Gerald Lyman — A college philosophy professor who is articulate and charming but cannot hold a position, partially due to his resistance to any kind of authority, and partially due to his unfortunate taste for young women. He also has an obvious drinking problem.

▪Cherie — A pretty young woman who comes from a difficult "hill folk" background, and has left her innocence far behind. She is an aspiring nightclub singer, but has never worked in any establishment above the level of "cheap dive".

▪Bo Decker — A brash young cowboy with boorish manners that hide a naivete almost as profound as Elma's. He has convinced himself that Cherie will be his bride, though Cherie wants nothing to do with him.

▪Virgil Blessing — An older, wiser cowboy who has become a father figure to Bo (who was orphaned at the age of ten) as well as Bo's head ranch hand.

▪Carl — The bus driver, who has an ongoing "just passing through" relationship with Grace.