Stage Performance In Our Town

Throughout most written plays, they usually have films or stage performances. Usually the two are very different from each other. Many of the times the scenes are different. In Our Town the stage performance is very similar to the written play. There are a few differences with the written play and the stage performance. There is more comparisons than differences between the two. The differences are minor and did not change the overall play. There were no major changes at all so the stage performance is true to the text. The stage performance did an excellent job being true with the play. The stage manager, who is played by Spalding Gray, was exactly on point with the written play. He was word for word with the script. For the other actors and their parts of the script, some lines are taken off or cut short from another actor or stage cue. There are small differences with actors and some of their cues. They would either do them before they are suppose to or after the cue was given. ------Ofcourse the play has a few changes. These changes only being minor rather than being major. In the third act of the performance before Emily comes out from under the umbrellas, Mrs. Soames is cut off by the group singing. In the written play there were 2 …show more content…
For example, in Act II George and Emily are going to get ice-cream soda at the drugstore. “He places a board across the backs of two chairs… He brings two high stools from the wings and places them behind the board. Persons sitting on the stools will be facing the audience” (Wilder 63). This is what is what Wilder describes as the counter in the store. The stage performance uses the same set of props and faces the audience. In Act I, ladders are set up to act as the second stories of George’s and Emily’s homes. In the stage performance they are set up to face as if they lived across the street from each