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Our Town | |
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Written by | Thornton Wilder |
Characters | Stage Manager Mrs. Myrtle Webb Mr. Charles Webb Emily Webb Joe Crowell Jr. Mrs. Julia Gibbs Dr. Frank F. Gibbs Simon Stimson Mrs. Soames George Gibbs Howie Newsome Rebecca Gibbs Wally Webb Professor Willard Woman in the Balcony Man in the Auditorium Lady in the Box Mrs. Louella Soames Constable Warren Si Crowell Three Baseball Players Sam Craig Joe Stoddard |
Date premiered | February 4, 1938 |
Place premiered | Henry Miller's Theatre New York City, New York |
Original language | English |
Subject | Life and death in an American small town |
Genre | Drama |
Setting | 1901 to 1913. Grover's Corners, New Hampshire near Massachusetts. |
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Our Town is a 1938 three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. Set in the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners, the play tells the story of the Webb and Gibbs families as they weave their way through the minutiae of everyday life. In a period spanning from 1899 to 1913, the play follows the characters as they experience love and lose in the pastoral, idyllic town of Grover's Corners. The play is performed with minimal set pieces and the actors often mime their actions without the use of props. In addition, Wilder uses metatheatrical devices, such as narration by a stage manager, throughout the play.
Our Town was first performed at McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey on January 22, 1938. It later went on to success on Broadway and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It remains popular today and revivals are frequent.