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Picnic is the 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play that takes place on Labour Day weekend, and the arrival on down-on-his-luck Hal and his relationships with the close-knit community. After finishing the play, I immediately picked it up again because it deserved a second read. Inge's script is so rich that you will get something different out of it each time you read it. There is so much said, and not said, that you can't help but keep thinking about the play long after the final curtain. The use of the train, which you only hear through dialogue or the sound of its while, was a great repeated motif that made you keeps drawing you back to the theme of escape, and of travel. There are fascinating conjunctures made regarding gender roles, of how they play off one another, and how Hal, a new male arrival, changes the pre-established dynamics of an overtly female setting. His arrival acts as a catalyst for several changes, some direct and some indirect. In the UK this play is not well-known at all, despite the 1955 film adaptation, and as far as I can see has not had a West End run. I hope that I will get to see a live performance of this play someday in the future.