Room At The Top Of The Stairs
The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs Script Pdf
Donna Lynne Champlin and Jack Tartaglia in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (© Carol Rosegg) The theater can't thrive on revivals alone, but a strong production of a worthy old play is certainly preferable to an iffy production of a mediocre new one. Attention must be paid to the Transport Group's staging of William Inge's because (1) the acting is superb, even if the direction is odd; and (2) though the play seems to have fallen into disfavor over the decades since its Broadway bow in 1957, it proves to be a minor masterpiece. Set in Oklahoma in the 1920s, this is Inge's semi-autobiographical tale of a family in crisis. Rubin Flood, a traveling salesman at odds with his loving but nagging wife, Cora, leaves town in Act I and doesn't return till the end of Act III.