Review Of Our Town By Thornton Wilder

Decent Essays
Lorena Estevez
October 20, 2015
Acting II
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
I first heard about this play from my old drama teacher. I was telling her about one of my topics for my college essay and how I wrote about a dirt road, and she just got this play and said I would like it. To be honest I never understood how she thought I would like a play just by telling her about my college essay, but it happened. I took her book, but I never really read it anytime throughout my senior year. I would always have it in my purse or in my book bag just incase I wanted to read it, but I never had the opportunity. We also had iPads in my old school, so usually when there was nothing to do most of us would just play with out iPads. I asked her about it though

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