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50% off (Sale price $48.00, Reg. Price $96.00) :: Seating: reservedOur TownBefore it graced the Broadway stage and won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Our Town made its debut at Princetons McCarter Theater in 1938. Returning to its home state, the classic work by Thornton Wilder whisks audiences to the fictional small town of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, and pulls them back in time to 1901. Over three acts, a stage manager punctures the fourth wall to speak directly to the audience, introducing the intertwining stories of the townspeople. Act one focuses on the routine of everyday tasks, from the morning milk delivery to the school bell beckoning children from their homes. Act two opens three years later, zooming in on the wedding preparations of high-school sweethearts George and Emily while backtracking just a bit to let their prenuptial fears and anxieties show. The third act—nine years later—meditates on death, but in doing so celebrates life. The postdeath contemplations of Emily emphasize just how much life should be valued: every, every minute of it.When Wilder wrote Our Town, he did so largely in response to what he viewed as the superficiality and evasiveness of theater in his time. Doing away with fancy trappings, Our Town is staged without a set and with minimal props. The narrative then conveys its heavy themes through metatheatrical devices: the words of the stage manager, and the mimed actions of the performers. Perseverance Theatres production of Our Town features an all-Alaskan cast with Golden Globe-nominee Irene Bedard (Disneys Pocahontas and Ralph Breaks the Internet, HBOs Westworld, Smoke Signals) in the role of Stage Manager.
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