The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

The Transport Group presents the official 50th anniversary production of William Inge’s The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, directed by Jack Cummings III.

Set in a small Oklahoma town in the early 1920’s, the play tells the story of a middle class family torn apart by economic forces, social upheaval, violence, and sexual trauma. It centers on Rubin Flood, who after losing his job as a traveling salesman for a harness manufacturer, finds himself pulled in several directions at once — looking for new employment while trying to deal at once with a wife who shuns intimacy and mistakes his joblessness for stinginess; a shy teenage daughter preparing for her first dance; and an introverted son who runs to his mother instead of confronting local bullies.