Our Town - Wikipedia
Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [1] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the …
New Hampshire Missing Places: Grover’s Corners
Oct 17, 2006 · When Thornton Wilder wrote the play, “ Our Town,” in 1938, he set the scene in a fictional town called Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. The inspiration came when he was staying at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough–a retreat to encourage creativity in resident writers, musicians and artists.
Our Town | Thornton Wilder Society
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 summers.
15 Remarkable Facts About Thornton Wilder's Our Town - Mental Floss
Feb 4, 2018 · OUR TOWN IS A SIMPLE STORY ABOUT EVERYDAY AMERICANS. Set in the humble hamlet of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, the play follows the relationship of young lovers Emily Webb and George Gibbs,...
Our Town — Thornton Wilder
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. 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 ...
Our Town: Full Book Summary - SparkNotes
Our Town is introduced and narrated by the Stage Manager, who welcomes the audience to the fictional town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, early on a May morning in 1901.
Our Town - National Endowment for the Arts
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 Called Our Town: 80 Years in Grover’s Corners
Jan 21, 2018 · Every once in a while she started to fall into too much emotional expression in Act III; all I said was, you’ve got to save that for your trip back to Grover’s Corners. By the time you get to the graveyard, it’s already starting to be something that is no longer causing you pain.
Is Grover's Corners a Real Place? - Broadway World
Oct 12, 2024 · At the center of the story, as the play's title implies, is the town itself- Grover's Corners. The setting is described in full by the Stage Manager, who acts a narrator, throughout all...
Our Town - Thornton Wilder
This timeless drama of life in the mythical village of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, has become an American classic with universal appeal. Thornton Wilder's most frequently performed play, Our Town appeared on Broadway in 1938 to wide acclaim, and won the Pulitzer Prize.