Downtown Springfield Association
Picnic
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Picnic

March, 2 2020 | 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

1147 E Grand Street Springfield, Missouri 65897
https://theatreanddance.missouristate.edu/CurrentProductions.htm
4178364644

$8 - $14


It’s Labor Day in a small Kansas town in the 1950s. At two neighboring households of women, preparations are underway for the annual picnic, a welcome diversion from their usual routines. Helen Potts spends her days dutifully caring for her elderly mother. Flo Owens, a middle-aged widow, has two teenage daughters: beautiful Madge and brainy Millie. She also rents a room to Rosemary, a spinster schoolteacher. Flo hopes that the holiday will bring a marriage proposal for Madge, whose bookish boyfriend Alan comes from the town’s most prosperous family. But everything changes when Hal, a sexy drifter and old college friend of Alan’s, arrives! Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Picnic captures the repression and restlessness of mid-century middle America.