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The stage manager arranges some tables and chairs on stage while the audience enters the theater, and then addresses the audience. He tells them that they are about to see a play called “Our Town” about the town of Grover’s Corners. He introduces the audience to Dr. Gibbs and Mrs. Gibbs, as well as their neighbor, Mr. Webb, who edits the local newspaper, The Grover’s Corners Sentinel.
A minimalist theatrical style sets apart the 1938 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Wilder’s greatest and best-known work as a playwright, Our Town opens with the Stage Manager’s introduction to Grover’s Corners, a fictional town based on Peterborough, New Hampshire where Wilder often spent his ...
Our Town. Story. Tickets starting at $76.55. Buy Tickets. Our Town, the timeless drama of life in the village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, has become an American classic with universal ...
Our Town opened on Broadway at Henry Miller's Theatre on February 4, 1938, produced and directed by Jed Harris. The original cast featured Frank Craven, Martha Scott and John Craven. The play returned to Broadway four times: in 1944 starring Marc Connelly; in 1969 starring Henry Fonda; in 1988 starring Spalding Gray; and in 2002 starring Paul ...
At first glance, his play Our Town appears to be a simple, innocuous portrait of life in the small New Hampshire town of Grover’s Corners. But as time passes in the three acts—an ordinary day, a wedding, a death—the play builds to a soaring exploration of human existence: its boundless trials, joys, questions, certainties. This play “is ...
Our Town by Thornton Wilder Page 2 ACT I No curtain. No scenery. The audience, arriving, sees an empty stage in half-light. Presently the Stage Manager. When the Stage Manager reaches his place, the lights come to black. After one count, the lights come to full. Stage Manager This play is called "Our Town." The day is May 7, 1901. The time is ...
Thornton Wilder escribió ‘Our Town’ en 1938, una obra en tres actos (Acto I: Vida Diaria, Acto II: Amor y Matrimonio y Acto III: La muerte y el morir) que nos cuenta la historia de una localidad (que podría ser cualquiera), a través de la vida de sus ciudadanos. Gabriel Olivares dirige una versión que respeta el espíritu original del ...
