Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was a novelist and playwright whose works celebrate the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. Michelson – Assistant Stage Manager About Thornton Wilder
Creating the Look of Our Town:Q and A with Set Designer Brian Mallgrave.Exploring Our Town with Samantha Piel at the Arvada Center: "Living Vicariously Through Myself" podcast.On Being Latinx in Theatre with Teej Morgan-Arzola of the Arvada Center: "Besos, Jules" podcast."Grover’s Corners of 1901 may feel far away to the present-day theatergoer, however, the messages about life, love and death found in Our Town ring true as much today as they did more than a century ago." - OnStage Colorado review."It's a love letter to theater-making," - Actor Matt Zambrano in the Denver Westword.“Our production, to me, feels like the product of pure artistic collaboration,” - Actor Archer Rosenkrantz in Colorado Community Media.Take a deeper dive into Our Townand explore resources about Thornton Wilder's classic metatheatrical masterpiece! About Our Production The set is minimal, and actors tend to pantomime rather than use props.
Devices such as “breaking the fourth wall” (speaking directly to the audience, thus breaking down the imaginary fourth wall that separates fictional worlds from reality) and plays-within-plays that act as a miniature portrayal of the theatre production being seen are often used in metatheatre. This sharpens audiences’ awareness that what they are seeing is theatre and not real life. Wilder has written the play to be metatheatrical, where the play comments on its own fictional status. Set in the fictional small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire between 1901-1913, this play is about themes that affect every human being - life, love and marriage, and death. Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Our Town invokes powerful storytelling alongside wit and humor to showcase what it means to be human.Ĭonsidered by some to be the greatest American play ever written, Our Town is a three-act play by Thornton Wilder first published in 1938. Deceptively simple, this landmark of American drama proves to be a complex exploration of profound truths. The story of one small town is a portrait of the universal experiences of life, love, and death. “The greatest American play ever written"
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