Our Town

Our Town by Thornton Wilder
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Read this to brush up on it after reading Tom Lake . It's a shorter play than I thought. Some of it hasn't aged well and I'm curious how modern directors and audiences deal with this. But the vision behind the play is timeless- the idea that you can't really appreciate life as you are living it but that we know life is precious and we regret not valuing it in the moment. The edition I read also gave a history of Wilde writing the play along with notes he gave of certain productions, which was very interesting and insightful. The book also claims that it is being preformed somewhere around the world every night, so I guess I'll have to seek out a production. ;).

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