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March 09, 2007
Our Town
Last night my sister and I went to see Our Town at Geva Theater. It was an excellent play, but sad. I cried :-)
(Description from Geva Website)
The Story: Grover's Corners, New Hampshire in 1901. It’s a place where nothing much and everything important in life happens. The Stage Manager introduces us to some of the hardy and hardworking Yankees who live there as he takes us through a few of the noteworthy moments in their lives: George Gibbs and Emily Webb for example, who live next door to each other, go to school together, fall in love, get married and have a family. Their neighbors in Grover's Corners do pretty much the same thing. Sometimes they notice the fleeting beauty of their lives but mostly they don’t. Just like us. Their town is our town.
The Experience: If you think you already know Our Town, you might be surprised. What Wilder crafted is a simple journey that builds to an awe-inspiring, powerful shared experience in the theatre –real sentiment without being sentimental.
The Buzz: Thornton Wilder won three Pulitzers, and is the only writer ever to win a Pulitizer both for drama and fiction. His plays and novels have been adapted into operas and films, and Our Town is one of the most frequently performed plays ever written, as remarkable today as when it premiered in 1938. This marks Geva’s first production of the play.
“Beautiful and remarkable, one of the sagest, warmest and most deeply human scripts to have come out of our theatre. . . . A spiritual experience.”New York Post
“No American play describes more powerfully how we imagine ourselves.”New York Daily News
Posted by beth at March 9, 2007 08:47 AM