Our Town

Our Town strives to unite the 'earthly living' and the 'supernatural' into a time capsule of small-town life showing that life, in its greatness, is incomparable. I think this book/play was written to move its audience with this whole idea, instead of its individual dramas. It was written to explain that the town doesn't exist because of its wood frames or stone houses, but that the tempo of daily life from birth to love, …

…and understanding of the issues larger role. The 'Stage Manager' put it best while discussing the burying of the town's time capsule. He said " it will show people a thousand years from now-- this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying."