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This edition of the play differs only slightly from previous acting editions, yet it presents Our Town as Thornton Wilder wished it to be performed.Described by Edward Albee as 'the greatest American play ever written,' Our Town presents the small town of Grover’s Corners in three acts: 'Daily Life,' 'Love and Marriage' and 'Death and Eternity.' Read a Plot Overview of the entire play or a chapter by chapter Summary and Analysis. See a complete list of the characters in Our Town and in-depth analyses of Stage Manager, Emily Webb, and George Gibbs. Find the quotes you need to support your essay, or refresh your memory of the book by reading. Our Town is a play about what we (and Thornton Wilder) thought America and Americans were. The characters in Our Town tell us what they knew of life, its pain and hope, its simplicity and truth. Thornton Wilder’s play is often viewed as saying that life is meaningful only when lived with full awareness of the value of the present moment. 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.

Free download or read online Our Town pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in 1938, and was written by Thornton Wilder. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 181 pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this plays, classics story are Stage Manager, Mrs. Myrtle Webb. The book has been awarded with Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1938), New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Nominee for Best American Play (1938) and many others.

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Author:	Thornton Wilder
Original Title:	Our Town
Book Format:	Paperback
Number Of Pages:	181 pages
First Published in:	1938
Latest Edition:	September 23rd 2003
Language:	English
Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1938), New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Nominee for Best American Play (1938)
Main Characters:	Stage Manager, Mrs. Myrtle Webb, Mr. Charles Webb, George Gibbs, Emily Webb
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Part one: From the beginning of the Act through Mrs.Gibbs and Mrs. Webb’s conversation in the garden

Summary

Our Town Play Script Act 3

The play opens with a view of an empty, curtainless, half-lighted stage.The Stage Manager enters and arranges minimal scenery—a table andthree chairs—to represent two houses, one on each side of the stage.The houselights dim as the Stage Manager moves about the stage.When the theater is completely dark, he introduces the play, namingthe playwright, producers, director, and cast. He then identifiesthe setting: the town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, just beforedawn on May 7, 1901.

The Stage Manager speaks directly to the audience as hemaps out local landmarks. The audience must use its imagination,since the minimalist set does not detail any of these landmarks,which include Main Street, the public schools, Town Hall, and several churches.The Stage Manager explains that the two sets of tables and chairsdenote the homes of the Gibbs family and the Webb family. As hespeaks, his assistants wheel out two trellises to represent theback doors of Mrs. Webb’s and Mrs. Gibbs’s homes. “There’s somescenery for those who think they have to have scenery,” the StageManager comments. He mentions that the 5:45 a.m. trainto Boston is just about to depart. A train whistle blows offstageand the Stage Manager looks at his watch, nodding.

As dawn breaks over Grover’s Corners, the Stage Managerproceeds to introduce the audience to the town’s inhabitants. Wewitness the beginning of a new day in the Webb and Gibbs households andobserve the morning activities of the two families and a few othertownspeople. The characters pantomime many of their actions dueto the absence of props and scenery. Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Gibbs entertheir respective kitchens, light their stoves, and begin makingbreakfast. Machine drawing by ajit singh ebook free download online. The Stage Manager informs the audience that both Dr.Gibbs and Mrs. Gibbs have died since 1901,when this scene originally took place.

Dr. Gibbs, on his way home from delivering a local woman’stwin babies, stops to chat briefly with the paperboy, Joe Crowell,Jr. They discuss the upcoming marriage of a local schoolteacher.Dr. Gibbs stands in the street and reads the paper as Joe exits.The Stage Manager interrupts the immediate action to inform theaudience that Joe would go on the become the brightest boy in highschool and study at Massachusetts Tech. Well on his way to becominga successful engineer, Joe would be killed in France during WorldWar I.

Howie Newsome, the milkman, enters with an invisiblehorse. Howie stops to converse with Dr. Gibbs, who gives him thenews of the twins’ birth. After Howie delivers his milk to the Gibbsresidence, Dr. Gibbs goes inside and greets his wife, who has madecoffee for him. Mrs. Gibbs asks her husband to speak to their teenage son,George, about helping around the house more often. Next door, Mrs.Webb calls her children—Emily and Wally—down to breakfast. In theGibbs household, George and his sister, Rebecca, enter the kitchenand sit at the table. Both pairs of children chatter over breakfast,then go outside, meet in the street, and hurry off to school together.

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Left alone, Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb go outside intotheir gardens. The two women see each other and come together fora chat. Mrs. Gibbs tells Mrs. Webb that she has some news: a travelingsecondhand furniture salesman recently offered her the hefty sumof $350 for her highboy, an old piece offurniture. The women discuss whether Mrs. Gibbs should accept theoffer and what she would do with the money. Mrs. Gibbs says thatif she does decide to sell the highboy, she hopes to live out the“dream of [her] life” and travel to Paris for a visit. Her excitementis tempered, however, by the fact that Dr. Gibbs has already toldher that “traipsin’ about Europe” might make him disheartened withGrover’s Corners, and thus thinks a trip to Paris might be a badidea. Mrs. Gibbs says that her husband only cares about going toCivil War battlefields. Mrs. Webb remarks that her husband, an eagerstudent of Napoleonic history, greatly admires Dr. Gibbs’s Civil