Our town
a play in three acts
by Thornton Wilder
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The play is considered a classic portrayal of small-town American life, set in the town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. We follow the lives of George Gibbs, a doctor's son, and Emily Webb, the daughter of the newspaper editor, through their courtship, marriage, and Emily's death in childbirth. However, the style of "Our Town" is sometimes considered more striking than the substance because of its lack of props and scenery. The play features a narrator, the Stage Manager, who sits at the side of the unadorned stage and explains the action to the audience.
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Death, Scripts, Drama, Young women, City and town life, American drama (dramatic works by one author)Places
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Our Town (Perennial Classics)
October 1999, HarperCollins Publishers
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0808563254 9780808563259
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Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
October 1998, Perennial
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0060929847 9780060929848
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Our town: a play in three acts
1939, Coward-McCann, inc., in cooperation with S. French, inc., New York
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Thornton Wilder contemplates ordinary life events (birth, family life, marriage, and death), mostly through one character, a young woman, Emily Webb, who leads an unexamined life until she encounters death.
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