The title event is scheduled to happen in a small town in Kansas on Labor Day, but is skipped by several of the characters in favor of furtive sex.
One character in this work panics when she spots a teenager reading The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, exclaiming "Everyone in it is some sort of degenerate! It was banned from the library!" and is later told, after condemning Picasso, that "pictures don't have to be pretty." A man who is falsely accused of stealing a car in this play attempts to stow away on a freight train to Tulsa and is told that he will "return to the gutter" by a scorned woman who is ultimately encouraged by Mrs. Potts to elope with (*) Howard Bevans. A hobo in cowboy boots, Hal Carter, is introduced as a college classmate of Alan Seymour and later prevails, over Flo's advice, in his desire to run away with Madge Owens. The title event is scheduled to happen in a small town in Kansas on Labor Day, but is skipped by several of the characters in favor of furtive sex. For 10 points, name this play by William Inge about an outdoor gathering.
One character in this work panics when she spots a teenager reading The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, exclaiming "Everyone in it is some sort of degenerate!
{Picnic}