Donta’ Broussard 1393380 THEA 1331 "Our Town" Described by Edward Albee as "......the greatest American play ever written."Our Town explores traditional American values of community‚ religion‚ family‚ and the simple leisures while adding an unusual set‚ a Stage Manager who narrates and controls the action. Our Town addresses themes as mortality‚ the human condition‚ and the value of everyday life. In Our Town‚ the main role belongs to the Stage Manager‚ who jokes with the audience‚ narrates
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In a brief sum up‚ Our Town is a play based only on imagination. If you don’t have an imagination‚ you’ll be staring at a bare stage because there are few props on stage. It is a play based on life; its shown as how the author sees it‚ relates to it and lives in it. He shows us that we take our lives for granted as we watch two families in the 1900’s. The author is Thornton Wilder. It was written in 1934-1938‚ United States and publishes in 1938 by Coward-McCann‚ Inc. Wilder’s play defies most conventional
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Our Town‚ written by Thornton Wilder in 1938‚ is known as one of his best works. It is usually referred as beautiful and remarkable‚ one of the sagest‚ warmest and deeply human his scripts. One of the themes captured in the play is the one of family relations. We can trace this particular theme though the whole play. In the 1st act we are introduced to 2 families of the Gibbses & the Webbs. Charles and Myrtle Webb and Frank and Julia Gibbs give us a possibility to have a look at the day-to-day
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Our Town is a play that takes place near the turn of the century in the small rural town of Grover’s Corners‚ New Hampshire. The playwright‚ Thornton Wilder is trying to convey the importance of the little‚ often unnoticed things in life. Throughout the first two acts he builds a scenario‚ which allows the third act to show that we as humans often run through life oblivious to what is actually happening. Wilder attempts to show life as something that we take for granted. We do not realize
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It was my sophomore year‚ and I auditioned for the play Our Town. Our Town is a play I will never forget. I do not know how‚ and I do not know why‚ but somehow God used this play to reveal Himself once more to me. He gave to me a cast that treated me as family and a plot that told of greater moments than this life. Our Town depicted what most consider to be unimportant‚ everyday activities and revealed their intrinsic value with each line and
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Do Small Towns Need Stores? According to Amy Liu(2016)‚ Vice President and Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. “Today‚ local and regional economic development remains a patchwork of important innovations and legacy practices at a time when the global economy is fast-moving and not working for most people.” As stated by Liu‚ local and regional economic development remains an important innovation of the time at hand. New development is essential for the growth of the global economy
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It´s better to grow up in a big city than in a small town‚ because there are many advantages for children in big cities‚ as have a better education‚ have more opportunities‚ have a good quality of life‚ plus almost all of the places that children want to go are not far and finally children get more motivated and responsible. First of all‚ children who grow up in big cities have a better education; there are a wide range of schools for them to choose and there are more universities‚ colleges and
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Living in a small town is better than in a big city I am not an adaptable and ambitious person. I don’t like challenges. I like to stay in a comfortable place surrounded by the people I know and enjoy my life. According to my characters‚ living in a small town will be the best option for me. I find there are many reasons why I choose to live in a small town. I can form a truly deep friendship in a small town. The type of friendship that wasn’t form based on social status‚ but based on the character
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I grew up in a small town and then moved to a big city‚ so I have experienced the good and bad sides of both. I never thought that I would like living in a big city‚ but I was wrong. After ten years of living in one‚ I can’t imagine ever living in a small town again. Small towns and big cities both have some problems in te1ms of transpmtation. In a small town‚ you have to own a car to ensure a comfmtable living. You can’t get around without one because there isn’t any kind of public transpmtation
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In February 1938‚ during the Great Depression‚ Our Town opened on Broadway‚ Tappen Wilder in the afterword states‚ “in spite of mixed reviews when the box-office opened Saturday morning there were 26 people in line; the line continued all day‚ the police had to close it for ten minutes so the audience could get into the matinee” (Wilder‚ 114). Even with continued mixed reviews of Our Town‚ the play itself has remained popular throughout cultures with multiple runs not only on Broadway and foreign
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