Our Town

Our Town is clearly a representation - and largely a celebration - of small-town American life. Nearly every character in the play love’s Grover's Corners, even as many of them acknowledge its small-mindedness and dullness. Its sleepy simplicity, in fact, is its major point of attraction for many characters. Dr. Gibbs, for instance, who refuses to travel, thus cultivates his ignorance of life outside of Grover's Corners in order to remain content within it; his son, too, decides not to go away…

Thornton Wilder’s, Our Town is no ordinary play. This play goes through a human being’s ordinary life, learning to cherish the present moment. The play begins with no scenery nor curtain, which gives the audience confusion for the stage manager setting up tables and chairs. However, Wilder displays what is given to them in the present moment. His central theme of this play is understanding and cherishing the beauty of God’s existence in the present world. Thornton Wilder clarifies the…

the cycle of life that every human being goes through, fictional and real. Being born, living life, and finally dying. It happens to real people and fiction characters alike, including characters from Our Town by Thornton Wilder and Sounder by William H. Armstrong. George Gibbs, a character from Our Town, has lived and suffered just like any other person due to the death of his young wife, Emily. Emily’s father, Editor Webb, has suffered the same loss as George, also including his son who passed…

In the play “Our Town” the idea of marriage is seen in many different lights, and as is often in the world, it can get a little confusing. One view, held by the Stage Manager himself, is one of simplicity. Meaning that, the ceremony itself, is short and sweet, and the two live side by side the rest of their lives. How different that is from today’s views. All these people, getting the nicest and grandest flowers and getting the monkey's uncle to come to the wedding, all to cut it off three…

minute”: Tragedy in Our Town Despite the uplifting tone of Our Town, by Thornton Wilder, he suggests that individuals never truly appreciate life. In Our Town, it manifests a tragic vision of life and can be classified as one of the major genres of modern drama, a tragedy. In the tragedy, it implies that there is a symbol of death that is foreshadowed from the beginning. This captures how Our Town is a classical tragedy that belongs to the non-realism phase of drama. However, Our Town has…

The Westport Country Playhouse production of Our Town Written by Thornton Wilder proves to be a rather interesting telling of life. The plot is hard to understand at first, in fact it is rather confusing and the long explanations from the narrator slow the pace of the show. However, through rather excellent acting and stage production the meaning of the story emerges to surprise. The production begins simply. Stagehands are moving set pieces around and an older gentleman appears to be…

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…

result of the way it's carried out, it's a way of life. Although isolated the texts and themes of Our Town and Blindness appear very distinct, the author's purpose behind specific scenes are very parallel in their subject and allow for the significance behind each to compliment the other. The three-act play Our Town written by playwright Thornton Wilder follows the lives of ordinary citizens in the small town of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire during the early twentieth century. The play is…

Corners Grover, Mr Webb gives comparison between cream and milk.." I guess we're all hunting like everybody else for a way the diligent and sensible can rise to the top and the lazy and quarrelsome can sink to the bottom ". Structure that use in Our Town by Thornton Wilder's direction sets himself as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee William,William Inge and American theatrical drama writer that the time have the innovations. He uses third play part as basic structure to be played, however at this…

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…