Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Directed by Alan Copsey

April 24-28 2012

“Our Town” the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic by Thornton Wilder.

“This is a play written with straightforward simplicity, sincerity and compassionate understanding” and it carries a universal message as relevant today as it was in 1938.

“Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th Century. People grow up, get married, live and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.”

This play is better known in America than here, where it is regularly performed in High Schools and Universities, and by amateurs and professionals alike. It has become a classic of American Theatre, and is greatly loved. The play examines the hopes and fears, the aspirations and loves of two families over a period of thirteen years ... come with us and visit Grover’s Corners, “just over the line from Massachusetts, latitude 42 degrees, 40 minutes, longitude 70 degrees, 37 minutes ... Nice town, know what I mean?”