BUS STOP

Original titleBUS STOP
CategoryPlay
AgegroupAdults
Cast8 total (3 F and 5 M)
Variable cast sizeNo
RepresentationNordic representation
LanguagesSwedish
This is a warm and sensible little overnight scrap between a couple of stranded, stubborn, appealing people. A bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner in the middle of a howling snowstorm. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travellers are going to have to stay until morning. Kim Stanley, scurrying through the doorway in a spangled nightclub gown and a seedy furtrimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She's been pursued, made love to, and finally kidnapped by a 21-year-old cowboy with a ranch of his own and the romantic methods of an unusually headstrong bull. The belligerent cowhand is right behind her, ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. Even as she's ducking out from under his clumsy but confident embraces, and screeching at him fiercely to shut him up, she pauses to furrow her forehead and muse, "Somehow deep inside of me I got a funny feeling I'm gonna end up in Montana..." As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver at last find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-age scholar comes to terms with himself, and a young girl who works in the cafe also gets her first taste of romance.