Playwright
William Inge
Performance Dates
July 11-15, 1967
Creative Team
Director - Charles W. Dodrill
Designer-Technical Director - Deena Ferrigno
Synopsis
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1957 play by William Inge about family conflicts during the early 1920s in a small Oklahoma town. It was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play in 1958 and was made into a film of the same name in 1960.
The drama centers on Rubin Flood, who loses his salesman job. While searching for a new job, he must deal with his wife, Cora, who shuns intimacy and mistakes his joblessness for stinginess, his shy daughter who prepares for her first dance and his pre-teen son who runs to his mother instead of dealing with bullies. He tries to find comfort with a friend, Mavis Pruitt, thus setting off rumors of an untoward relationship.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. (2016, November 20). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:58, June 14, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Dark_at_the_Top_of_the_Stairs&oldid=750513531
Disciplines
Acting | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
College Theater, Otterbein University Theater, Drama
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department, "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" (1967). 1967 Summer Theatre. 3.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/summer_production_1967/3