Theater Reviews: ‘Picnic’ and ‘Come Back, Little Sheba’

Transport Group Theatre Company is presenting an extraordinary duo of William Inge’s “Picnic” and “Come Back, Little Sheba.”
Theater Reviews: ‘Picnic’ and ‘Come Back, Little Sheba’
Madge (Ginna Le Vine), the prettiest girl in town, and Hal (David T. Patterson) a drifter who has caught her interest at a dramatic moment, in “Picnic.” Carol Rosegg
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NEW YORK—Transport Group Theatre Company is presenting an extraordinary duo of William Inge’s “Picnic” and “Come Back, Little Sheba” in rotating repertory under the direction of Jack Cummings III, downtown at The Gym at Judson.

Both plays harken back to the early 1950s (“Picnic,” from 1953, won the Pulitzer Prize) and are permeated with a yearning for something else and something better.

One gets a sense of the characters straining at an invisible leash.
Diana Barth
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Diana Barth writes for various theatrical publications and for New Millennium. She may be contacted at [email protected]
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