American Classics, the fourth season of the Script-in-Hand series presented by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, continues with Picnic, by Kansas native William Inge.

In his 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Inge focuses on small-town Kansas in the 1950s as a group of women wrestle with the expectations of society and what is in their own hearts. The play is regarded as a pioneering drama for its frank depiction of sexuality and its subliminally cynical take on the idea that “love conquers all.”