Come Back,
Little Sheba

Lola was the high school ‘it’ girl who had to marry young. Twenty years later, she and Doc don’t have the life they had hoped for in their cluttered, Midwestern home, where an aura of disappointment and tension pervades. When they take in a pretty young woman as a boarder, their lives are forever changed as they must finally confront both their past and their future. We’ve presented Inge’s plays Picnic and Bus Stop to great acclaim, so it seems only natural that we now present the play which launched his career.

William Inge came to prominence at virtually the same time as Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller whose rising stars seemed to eclipse his. I do hope that our ongoing exploration of his beautiful, sensitive plays will do just a tiny bit to right that wrong. —Jackie Maxwell

The play is recommended for ages 16 and up.