The Play Our Town Written By Thornton Wilder

Our Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder in 1937. Our Town is a play about the daily life in Act One, love and marriage in Act Two and death and dying in Act Three. The play is about two main characters, Emily Webb and George Gibbs. The play in Act One just goes through the daily life of the characters. Act Two it shows the love and marriage between these two characters and last Act Three shows life after death of the characters. The play has a man called the Stage Manager that is mainly a narrator throughout the play but also takes on the role of people in the town. The Stage Manager knows many thing about the people in the play Our Town.  The Stage Manager steps in, describes scenes, and seems to start and stop the action of the play whenever he wants. The Stage Manager has many similarities to God. The Stage Manager doesn't only know everything about everyone, he can also see into the future. The Stage Manager is also present in every scene watching it all play out. The Stage Manager and God are different because the Stage Manager unlike God makes

Somewhere there is a town where everyone’s best friend is their next-door neighbor. Everyone here would always stop and talk about what is going on, no matter who you are. Such community does exist, but only in the small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. The value and importance of community is shown in Our Town by Thornton Wilder using repetition and pattern of events. A few important times this is shown is the play is when Emily and George’s disagreements with each other help grow their relationship. When Howie Newsome greets neighbors while he delivers the milk across town is a significant part of Grover’s Corners’ community. Emily’s death is also meaningful to the community’s connections to each other.

Our Town is a story on how humans does not fully appreciate life until they die and realize what they did and want to go back and change it. Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town is about a town life in three acts. The three acts are as followed. Daily Life, Companionship, and Death.It shows how people live and die and how they regret things they did on earth and come to see the big picture of life. Wilder argues, because life is short we must appreciate the joys of living until we die.

Our Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder set in a small town known as Grover’s Corners. Wilder conjured the Stage Manager to be a representation to the theme of the play. The theme of universality placing Grover’s Corners in view with the rest of the world. Wilder makes a point to the audience that people have a big impact and influence over the next person, whether they were important or insignificant to that individual’s life. Therefore, the Stage Manager emphasizes on this very viewpoint that the lives of certain people are overlooked so are their influences. The Stage Manager himself is a physical embodiment of Wilders own views and opinions of humans and life itself. Throughout the play, the Stage Manager plays various of roles in order to force the realization to the audience into understanding the importance human life and the influence of others.

The movie Our Town was a 1938 American three-act play directed by Thornton Wilder. The movie tells the story about a fictional American town known as Grover’s Corners between 1901 and 1913. Throughout the mover, the director uses meta-theatrical tools to set the play in the theatres where such play was being conducted. The main character in this film is the stage manager who addresses the audience directly. The stage manager also brings in guest lecturers into the play by fielding questions from the viewers as well as filling some of the roles (TheConnection np). The major differences between this play and others are that the actors perform without a proper set and the acting is done without props.

Our Town is a play that takes place near the turn of the century in the small rural town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. The playwright, Thornton Wilder is trying to convey the importance of the little, often unnoticed things in life. Throughout the first two acts he builds a scenario, which allows the third act to show that we as humans often run through life oblivious to what is actually happening. Wilder attempts to show life as something that we take for granted. We do not realize the true value of living until we are dead and gone. The through-line of the action seems to be attention to the details of life. Wilder builds up a plot that pays attention to great details of living.

Our Town is play written a while ago, but it relates to any time. Showing that routine is a part of everybody’s life. No matter what day and age you live in your going to have a routine. This play shows an example of two families and their daily routines. The whole play relates to routine even the different acts.

Despite being a 4-act play, The Crucible written by Arthur Miller although a four act play can be put into the traditional 5 act tragedy. Set in Salem Massachusetts in the spring of 1692, The Crucible shows the gripping and suspenseful tales of the Salem witch trials in comparison to the 1950’s McCarthyism. Though with the basic exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution of the traditional five act play, this play is broken down into four major acts explaining the rippling effects of the girl’s accusations and the events following.

In the book Our Town, it reveals the stages of two families’ lives and how quickly is passes by. In order to develop the theme of living life to the fullest, Wilder establishes a specific plot, uses literary devices, and implements tone. Wilder begins his play by introducing two middle class families, the Gibbs and the Webbs.

This first act is just painting a picture for us of the small town life and everything pretty much goes the same way, day to day. The two families are just two families that live their lives by a routine without every changing, it is the so called way things are supposed to be. The wives will talk about their dreams even though they may never come true but they do have dreams or at least Mrs. Gibb’s does. The stage manager comes and goes and talks directly to the audience, he is not only narrating but giving you the picture in your head. He also can call the characters on stage and engage them directly. He demonstrates this by having the wives leave so he can talk about other things. He will call a scientist and Mr. Webb out to give a few facts about the Grover’s Corner. He is basically bragging up the little town even though it is just a little town that goes about their daily life, day in and day out. By the end of act one we will have heard about the marrying, living, and dying. This is what the whole play is about. They will even make a time capsule and the stage manager wants to make sure everything is in there to represent the town for years in the future. There is not a main event happening in act I, it is all just a broad picture to get your imagination going. At this point the stage manager reappears to let the audience know that this is the end of

The play, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, is very commonly remade in theaters. The theme of the play creates a background that most people can relate to. This script is about a small town, life, love, and the final act, death. Above all else, Wilder’s main goal was to bring value to the “smallest events in our daily life” which he successfully does throughout the story. During Act Two, the audience is shown Emily Webb and George Gibbs getting married.

The play began with an introduction to the orchestra that will be performing live alongside the play. I was amazed to find out about this only now. In addition, seeing that the tickets to this show was also not that expensive, I was truly thankful that I could actually kill two birds with one stone, having seen a play and an orchestra at the same time. At the beginning, an inaccurate version of The Princess and the Pea was shown before hand as the minstrel points out that the truth was far worse. This was of utmost importance to the audience to know so that they could set their expectations early on. The true story essentially begins with a test of wit for an unfortunate Princess #12, who fails miserably. I particularly liked the riddles as they helped to engage the thinking skills of the audience as well.

As I finished the acts, I made a short summary on the most important content I had touched on. This included themes I had noticed, characters involved, and points on interest in the play.

One last point that I believe will tie everything together by the end is that of romanticism in relation to nationalism. Although these themes sound similar they each have their own distinct differences, and I believe intertwined is what made this play great and gave the audience something to gravitate to because it was relatable in their own lives, and soon enough it will be explained just how.

Humans are powerless to fight the advancement of time, realizing too late that they wasted time doing one thing while they were losing another. The play Our Town is told in three acts, explaining the years going by, and how the advance of time effects many characters. I agree that no one truly appreciates something until it is already gone, similar to how Wilder ponders about the advancement of time. Thornton Wilder expresses many ways of time taking its toll on many of the characters in the play. Wilder shows in his play that time moves with or without you and the characters in Our Town got a taste of the time keeper’s medicine.