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Our Town,
March 1977
Starring:
Stage Manager - Robert J. Wesley
Emily Webb - Cathe Adkins |
George Gibbs - Jerry Lucas |
Directed By:
Leland Starnes
About the Play:
Our Town is as American as the READER'S DIGEST
or Norman Rockwell. It is often taken as a kind
of homespun documentary of small town life in
New Hampshire before World War I, but Mr.
Wilder's intention was somewhat deeper than mere
nostalgic evocation. "OUR TOWN," he said, "is
not offered as a picture of life in a New
Hampshire village, or as a speculation about the
conditions of life after death... it is an
attempt to find a value above all price for the
smallest events in our daily life." To help us
to perceive this value, Mr. Wilder depended upon
his knowledge of that peculiar characteristic of
the theatre: its "power to raise the exhibited
individual action into the realm of idea and
type and universal" and thereby to evoke our
belief.
--Leland Starnes |
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