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Drama
Thornton Wilder
17m, 7f, extras
Bare Stage
In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to release the playwright’s definitive version of Our Town. This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous acting editions, yet it presents the version of Our Town as Thornton Wilder wished it performed. Described by Edward Albee as “…the greatest American play ever written,” the story follows the small town of Grover’s Corners through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually—in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre—die. Thornton Wilder’s final word on how he wanted his play performed is an invaluable addition to the American stage and to the libraries of theatre lovers internationally. "While all of Wilder's work is intelligent, non-synthetic and often moving, as well as funny, it is Our Town that makes the difference. It is probably the finest play ever written by an American." —Edward Albee
"Thornton Wilder's masterpiece...An immortal tale of small town morality [and]...a classic of soft spoken theater." —The New York Times
"Beautiful and remarkable one of the sagest, warmest and most deeply human scripts to have come out of our theatre...A spiritual experience." —The New York Post
"No American play describes more powerfully how we imagine ourselves."- The New York Daily News
"No play ever moved me so deeply." —Alexander Woolcott, The New Yorker
FEE: $75 per performance. Slightly Restricted
Publicity Kit available, $6.25
**NOTE: May not be done as cutting or one act.** Click below for additional materials:
Sound Effects CD PostersIncidental Sheet Music
Other Thornton Wilder titles available from Samuel French include:
The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun The Beaux' Stratagem Childhood The Drunken Sisters The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden Infancy The Long Christmas Dinner Love and How To Cure It The Matchmaker Pullman Car Hiawatha Queens of France The Skin of Our Teeth Someone from Assisi Theophilus North
Collections
Collected Plays and Writings on Theater The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume I The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume II The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder Three Plays (Thornton Wilder)
Novels
The Bridge of San Luis Rey The Cabala and The Woman of Andros: Two Novels The Eighth Day Heaven’s My Destination The Ides of March Theophilus North
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