Our next production
Thornton Wilder’s Our Town
Wilder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, became
disillusioned with the American theatre of the 1920s, claiming it lacked
bile and realism. He decided to switch from novels and stories to plays
and found his voice in uncomplicated dramas that highlight the realities
of daily life, be they farcical or simple. Our Town is the
story of a small community (typical of communities throughout the world)
that finds itself having to come to terms with the downside to progress
- urban crime, the internal combustion engine and the detritus of
mechanisation, all the while carrying on at its gentle, unhurried pace,
watching families grow, young people marry and members of its community
come – gently for the most part - to the end of their lives. All these
individual stories are told without fuss and melodrama in Wilder’s
powerfully affecting tale of the simple life and how we should take time
every day to look, listen and appreciate the smaller things of the world
around us.
We will be performing Our Town from Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 October 2010, at 7.30pm, at Priory School, Lewes.