The simple story of a love affair is constantly rediscovered because it asks timeless questions about the meaning of love, life and death.
Wilder offers a couple of chairs on a bare stage as the backdrop for an exploration of the universal human experience. When Emily looses her life in childbirth, the circle of life portrayed in each of the three acts of Our Town–growing up, adulthood, and death–is fully realized. Our Town explores the relationship between two young Grover’s Corners neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage.
From the very beginning, Our Town has been produced throughout the world. Thornton Wilder’s most frequently performed play, Our Town appeared on Broadway in 1938 to wide acclaim, and won the Pulitzer Prize. This timeless drama of life in the mythical village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, has become an American classic with universal appeal.
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