![]() Aside from his original screenplay for the 1961 movie hit, Splendor in the Grass, Inge appeared to lose his touch with three quick failures in a row: A Loss of Roses, Natural Affection (revived by TACT/The Actors Company Theatre in 2013) and Where’s Daddy?. While Dan Wackerman’s production is always engrossing, this earlier script does not solve the problems of the play nor does the current casting.ĭuring the decade of the 1950’s, Inge dominated the Broadway stage with four huge hits: Come Back, Little Sheba, Picnic (a Pulitzer Prize winner), Bus Stop and Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Peccadillo Theater Company, in association with LaFemme Theatre Productions, is presenting the first New York revival of the play using the original script that Inge had wanted. Victor Gluck, Editor-in-ChiefAfter a decade as the most successful American playwright, William Inge always thought that the reason for the quick failure in 1959 of his fifth Broadway play, A Loss of Roses, was that director Daniel Mann had insisted on the wrong ending.
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