Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions Our Town: A Play in Three Acts, (Paperback)

from YvetteKolstad

This three act play depicts everyday and ordinary life in a small New Hampshire town called Grover's Corners between the years 1901 -1913. The Stage Manager narrates the story to the audience, as well as interacts with the actors. I remember seeing Thornton Wilder's play acted out on stage many y...

from tsfuhol

Great play about the foundation of everyday life in America. One thing I liked about the book was the character interactions among each other. I thought Wilder did an excellent job bringing out the basic conversations that people have with each other. For example how Mr. Gibbs talked to George ab...

from mattlhm

Thornton Wilder's play, Our Town, adequately captures the typical, American small town of the early 20th century where housewives spend their days preparing meals, raising children, and chatting with neighbors; husbands spout pearls of wisdom to whoever will listen, and teenagers muse their devel...

from vaillance

The unremarkable simplicity of life depicted in the first two acts of Our Town may leave the reader asking why the lives of the characters are not heightened by more melodrama or suspense. However, in the third act, we discover that this is precisely Thorton Wilder's intent-- to reveal to his aud...

from speedy74

Set in the 1910s, the play Our Town, depicts a small town at the cusp of the industrial revolution. Wilder is innovative in his use of the stage manager as a character/narrator in the play, and little scenery. He also creates characters that have died but are still involved in the play as onlooke...