Our Town

Description

OUR TOWN
by Thornton Wilder
11/21 — 12/28
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic American Play

Emily Webb begins the play overjoyed at a successful speech she gave at school. She interacts briefly with her possible suitor/next-door neighbor George Gibbs, and suddenly they’re getting married. After giving birth to their second child — and through a strange twist of fate — Emily gets to relive a special day of her life, but finds the experience illuminating and simultaneously tormenting, realizing she took her wonderful life for granted. Our Town beautifully and poetically re-creates a theatrical picture of small town, USA and the precious nature of life we all seem to take for granted. Themes of family, home, cycles, and the value of companionship resonate profoundly as they are woven lovingly into this tapestry/ portrait of life in America.