The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

 

I loved William Inge's Picnic. I read it a few times when I was 11 and 12. I was thinking about that and decided to read another play from Inge. This one deals with the marriage of a salesman and his wife. After the salesman leaves after a fight, she is left with the possibility that it might have been for good. This leads to the wife begging her sister to let her family move in with them. In the family also their teenaged daughter has a tragedy happen with a friend and the lonely son is preoccupied with movies. It's too bad that the movie of this isn't available on amazon or YouTube. It didn't blow my mind like Picnic but this was a good play. I just interlibrary loaned a lesser-known William Inge play. We shall see if it is also good.