Our Town: A Play in Three ActsDrama / 17m, 7f, extras / Bare Stage In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to release the playwright's definitive version of Our Town. This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous acting editions, yet it presents the version of Our Town as Thornton Wilder wished it performed. Described by Edward Albee as "...the greatest American play ever written," the story follows the small town of Grover's Corners through three acts: "Daily Life," "Love and Marriage," and "Death and Eternity." Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually-in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre-die. Thornton Wilder's final word on how he wanted his play performed is an invaluable addition to the American stage and to the libraries of theatre lovers internationally. "While all of Wilder's work is intelligent, non-synthetic and often moving, as well as funny, it is Our Town that makes the difference. It is probably the finest play ever written by an American." - Edward Albee "Thornton Wilder's masterpiece...An immortal tale of small town morality [and]...a classic of soft spoken theater." - The New York Times. |
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1ST DEAD WOMAN 2ND DEAD ain't aisle Alfred Ryder arms ASSISTANT STAGE audience BASEBALL PLAYER Bessie Black shoes blue bow tie breakfast Brown butternut tree chair choir church comin Congregational Church CONSTABLE WARREN Crawford Notch Doc Gibbs EMILY Emily's exits facing Frank Frank Craven French toast George Gibbs GIBBS Xes girl Goodbye Goodnight gray Grover's Corners hands happy Hello Howie Newsome Jed Harris JOE CROWELL Julia lights look Main Street Mama married milk minute Mornin morning Mother Gibbs Myrtle night Papa Pause play pot on stove PROFESSOR WILLARD proscenium REBECCA scene SIMON STIMSON slowly SOAMES soda STAGE MANAGER stairs starts steps stop takes tell There's thing THORNTON WILDER Tie That Binds town trellis turns two-color posters understudies upstairs verse walk WALLY watch WEBB Xes Webb's wedding Xes to cupboard Xes to stove