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Bus Stop


  • Abilene Christian University - Culp Theatre 1949 ACU Drive Abilene, TX, 79699 United States (map)

Spring Comedy

Bus Stop

Written by William Inge

Directed by Gary Varner, Faculty Emeritus

In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She’s been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she’s ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, “Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I’m gonna end up in Montana …” As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver at last find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-age scholar comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works in the cafe also gets her first taste of romance.

April 7-9, 2022, April 22*-23 @ 7:30 p.m

*Talkback on 22nd

Dinner on 23rd, 6:15pm North Lobby

Culp Theatre at 7:30 p.m.

Standard Tickets $25 (no dinner)

Tickets with Dinner $50

Recommended for ages 10 and older

*OPEN SEATING*

Earlier Event: April 7
Tot Spot
Later Event: April 7
ACU Film Fest