Bus Stop Costumes

Lauren Whitley

Grace Hoylard

•A middle-aged and passionate woman

•Owner of the diner, the setting of Bus Stop

“Help establish the style of a production.”

Elma Duckworth

• Teenage waitress at the diner

• Intelligent, but impressionable and gullible

“Indicate the Historical period of the play.”

Will Masters

• The good-hearted, moral, local Sheriff.

“Indicate the nature of individual characters… their occupations, their personalities.”

Dr. Gerald Lyman

• Philosophy professor with a drinking problem

• Has a weakness for young women

“Show relationships among characters.”

Cherie

• A cheap-dive nightclub singer

• Hoping to be more than what she is now

“Symbolically convey the significance of characters or theme.”

Bo Decker

• Foul-mannered young cowboy

• Wants Cherie to be his bride

• Orphaned at 10

“Meet the needs of individual performers… to move freely.”

Virgil Blessing

• Older, wiser cowboy

• Bo’s head ranch-hand

“Be consistent with the production as a whole.”

•“Father” to Bo Decker

Carl

• Driver of the bus• Has off-and-on

sexual relationship with Grace Hoylard

“Stage costumes should meet [these] seven requirements.” -The Theatre Experience, 12th Ed., Edwin Wilson