Description: From Wikipedia:Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day. Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written",[1] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.Wilder uses metatheatrical devices, setting the play in the actual theatre where it is being performed. The main character is the stage manager of the theatre who directly addresses the audience, brings in guest lecturers, fields questions from the audience, and fills in playing some of the roles. The play is performed without a set on a mostly bare stage. With a few exceptions, the actors mime actions without the use of props.The first performance of Our Town was at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, on January 22, 1938.[2] It went on to success on Broadway and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and remains popular today with frequent revivals.
Price: 9.99 USD
Location: New York, New York
End Time: 2025-02-13T03:04:01.000Z
Shipping Cost: 4.63 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Book Title: Our Town and Other Plays
Book Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin
Item Length: 5 in
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Vintage: No
Publication Year: 2000
Type: Plays
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Literary Movement: 20th Century
Era: 1900s
Item Height: 7.5 in.
Author: Thornton Wilder
Genre: Drama
Topic: Plays, Drama
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Item Weight: 5 oz
Item Width: 0.75 in.
Number of Pages: 281
