Our Town June 13, 2010

Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic is quite simply and literally daily life, love, and marriage, and then death and loss, broken down into three charming acts. This lyrical play is a love letter to the everyday details of commonplace life. The luminous microcosm of Grover's Corners stands for simple truths and eternal connections. In milk bottles and baseballs, choir practice and algebra homework, Wilder depicts the transcendent world as an achingly beautiful place where mere mortals cannot appreciate the all-too-brief shining moments in time.