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APA Book Club (optional) Our Town by Thornton Wilder Monitor: Mr. Steve Logan

The Summer Reading Committee selected this All-American play for everyone's optional choice since the Patriot Players will be performing Thornton Wilder's classic play in the fall. According to drama instructor Mrs. Janice Schreiber, the play will be the focus of APA's entry at the North Carolina one-act play competition next fall. So read the play, and watch out for the third act! It's worth the wait. Another note: you may want to purchase the newly released hardcover addition with an "Afterword" by Tappan Wilder, which includes new insights from the playwright, pictures, and "documentary material."



From Amazon.com:

//Our Town// was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the town of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play. It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly the great American play." In addition, Tappan Wilder has written an eye-opening new Afterword, which includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.

More. . . Pulitzer Prize-winning drama in three acts by Thornton Wilder, produced and published in 1938, considered a classic portrayal of small-town American life. Set in Grover's Corners, N.H., the play features a narrator, the Stage Manager, who sits at the side of the unadorned stage and explains the action. Through flashbacks, dialogue, and direct monologues the other characters reveal themselves to the audience. The main characters are George Gibbs, a doctor's son, and Emily Webb, daughter of a newspaper editor. The play concerns their courtship and marriage and Emily's death in childbirth, after which she and other inhabitants of the graveyard describe their peace. Considered enormously innovative for its lack of props and scenery and revered for its sentimental but at bottom realistic depictions of middle-class America, Our Town soon became a staple of American theater. -- //__[|The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature] __//


 * **Hardcover:** 208 pages
 * **Publisher:** Harper (September 23, 2003)
 * **Language:** English
 * **ISBN-10:** 0060535253
 * **ISBN-13:** 978-0060535254