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- Writer: Thornton Wilder
- Setting: Grover's Corners
- Premiere Date: 1938
- Adaptations: Numerous films (1940-2000s)
- Awards: 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- Takes place between 1901 and 1930
- First performed at Princeton University's McCarter Theater
- One of the most performed plays of the 20th century
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Synopsis
The Stage Manager opens the play by describing daily life in Grover's Corners, as well as a few of its key residents--most notably Emily and her friend George. A future romance is hinted at between the two and is later realized in the second act when the two marry on a rainy day a few years later.The third act reveals that Emily died while delivering her first child. Unknown to those attending her funeral, the deceased Emily is looking upon them from her grave. She has granted one day to relive and soon comes to realize how fleeting life is.
Emily says goodbye to Grover's Corners and its people, leaving the Stage Manager to close the play by recommending that the audience live each day to its fullest.
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Characters
- Stage Manager - Narrator
- Emily Webb - Main character
- George Gibbs - Emily's husband
- Myrtle Webb - Emily's mom
- Charles Webb - Emily's dad
- Julia Gibbs - George's mother
- Dr. Frank F. Gibbs - George's father
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OT:OUR TOWN. A Famous American Play in an Infamous American Town - $14.95
Against all odds, the first theatrical production in over 20 years at Dominguez High School is going to be Thornton Wilder's American classic "Our Town." The kids at this Compton s...Amazon
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Our Town - $9.95
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community, based on a Thornton Wilder play. Sweet and sensi...Amazon
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Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker (Perennial Classics) - $15.95
Three of the greatest plays in American literature collected in one volume This important new omnibus edition features an illuminating forewo...Amazon
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Our Town : A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics) - $9.95
This beautiful new edition features an eye-opening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and docum...Amazon
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Our Town on Amazon
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Our Town - $9.95
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community, based on a Thornton Wilder play. Sweet and sensi...Amazon
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Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker (Perennial Classics) - $15.95
Three of the greatest plays in American literature collected in one volume This important new omnibus edition features an illuminating forewo...Amazon
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OT:OUR TOWN. A Famous American Play in an Infamous American Town - $14.95
Against all odds, the first theatrical production in over 20 years at Dominguez High School is going to be Thornton Wilder's American classic "Our Town." The kids at this Compton s...Amazon
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Our Town : A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics) - $9.95
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For those of you still in town, our specials tonight are caprese salad, puttanesca and filet mignon. http://bit.ly/57rqHC
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Whats poppin Folks...right now we rockin our Hometown A-Town...my iPhone is fuckin Up daaaamn Need a Blackberry from the States holla at me
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On our way 2 austin. Love this town! Will be hard 2 leave tomorrow.
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On our way to Christnas town while rocking out to Unknown Hinson!
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For those of you still in town, our specials tonight are caprese salad, puttanesca and filet mignon. http://bit.ly/57rqHC
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Whats poppin Folks...right now we rockin our Hometown A-Town...my iPhone is fuckin Up daaaamn Need a Blackberry from the States holla at me
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