Our Town Play Script
| Title | : | our town |
| Air Date | : | 05.12.1939 ( May 12, 1939) |
| Plot | : | + 'Our Town'. Sponsored by: Campbell's Soup. The first radio performance of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Thornton Wilder. Good radio! An excellent production of a superb play.+ Our Town written by Thornton Wilder was one of the “classics of modern American theatre” and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the best play of 1938. There was much talk when it was first produced in the theatre because it was performed without scenery or props and with the lovable garrulous stage manager filling in gaps and explaining things as it went along. In this play Orson Welles plays that part and John Craven plays George the role he created in the original stage production. |
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| Title | : | our town |
| Air Date | : | 05.12.1939 |
| Plot | : | + 'Our Town'. Sponsored by: Campbell's Soup. The first radio performance of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Thornton Wilder. Good radio! An excellent production of a superb play.+ Our Town written by Thornton Wilder was one of the “classics of modern American theatre” and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the best play of 1938. There was much talk when it was first produced in the theatre because it was performed without scenery or props and with the lovable garrulous stage manager filling in gaps and explaining things as it went along. In this play Orson Welles plays that part and John Craven plays George the role he created in the original stage production. |
| File | : | our_town-1939-05-12.mp3 |
| File Size | : | 13.24Mb |
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Our Town Play Script Free
OUP TOWN by THORNTON WILDER Thisisadefinitive edition ofThornton Wilder's best-known andmostfrequently performed play. First produced andpub- lished in1938, atwhich timeitwonthe Pulitzer Prize, itsreputation asanAmeri- canclassic hasincreased overtheyears. Brooks Atkinson, inhisreview ofOur Town's first performance, hadthistosay: 'Taking ashismaterial three periods. An important part of understanding a play (or any writing for that mat-ter) is the ability to relate to the storyline in some way. The audience may relate with a character, a situation, a location, or even a feeling. Since Our Town is about a small town, most people would assume that those who. “This play is called ‘Our Town,’” he said. “It was written by Thornton Wilder.” It was the first time the character called the Stage Manager had delivered these lines before an audience, the first time Wilder’s classic play about life, love and death in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, had ever been performed publicly.
86 Our Town Gradual changes in Grover's Corners. Horses are getting rarer. Farmers coming into town in Fords. Everybody locks their house doors now at night. Ain't been any burglars in town yet, but everybody's heard about 'em. You'd be surprised, though-on the whole, things don't change much around here.