Picnic Tickets

Closeted and dogged by an acute sense of failure for most of his life until he ended it, William Inge wrote some of the great lyrical plays of the American mid-century, and Picnic was his masterpiece, his playground and, quite possibly, his fantasy. In this loving reimagining, director John Farmanesh-Bocca puts Inge’s play in the tumultuous 1960’s with an all black cast.

In 1953 Picnic won both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Circle Award.