WSU Theatre to present ‘Picnic’ play and explore history

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DAYTON — The trailer for the 1955 film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Picnic” doesn’t scream “sex!” or “desperate small-town women!”

But that’s the subtext for a voiceover, which explains:

“On a still, hot September morning in a little Kansas town, a man got off a train. This is the story of what happened that day to this man and that town, especially to its women.”

Many years later, on days with much different weather in a state with few passenger trains for men to ride, Wright State University Theatre will present “Picnic.”

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