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Our Town By Thornton Wilder: Play Analysis

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On October 28, 2015 students from Lebanon High School attended Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town. Students from our school and other schools in our area traveled to Northern Stage in White River Junction, Vermont. The main message in Our Town is that while you are alive you may take life for granted and not cherish it like you should. When you are dead, your life is eternal. You can let go of the past and look forward to the future when you will meet your family and friends again. The main characters are Emily Webb(Gibbs) and George Gibbs. The name of the actress that played Emily Webb is Sutton Crawford and the actor that played George Gibbs is Casey Predovic. The Stage Manager introduced the audience to the town of Grover's Corners. He said it was a small town located in New Hampshire. The original setting of the play was in the 1900s. The play director added some modern day things into this production, such as a power point and a modern day song. The first act was called Daily Life.act two was about love and marriage and the last act was about death. …show more content…

The actor and actress that played Emily Webb and George Gibbs had me thinking that they were a real couple off stage.The feeling I got from the actors and actresses was that even though they are not related, they are still a family in different ways.The play felt warm and welcoming, all the emotions were real so I felt that I could relate. The way the actors mimed their props was good. I could visualize what they were holding but it was somewhat distracting to me. The way they added current day things such as the power point and the song took away from the original feel that the play

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