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Winner! 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to release the playwright's definitive version of Our Town. 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," the story follows the small town of Grover's Corners through three acts: "Daily Life," "Love and Marriage," and "Death and Eternity." Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually-in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre-die. Thornton Wilder's final word on how he wanted his play performed is an invaluable addition to the American stage and to the libraries of theatre lovers internationally.
- Sales Rank: #6150800 in Books
- Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
- Published on: 1998-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .59" h x 5.50" w x 8.32" l,
- Binding: Library Binding
- Great product!
Review
"Taking as his material three periods in the history of a placid New Hampshire twon, Mr. Wilder has transformed the simple events of human life into universal reverie. He has given familiar facts a deeply moving, philosophical perspective...Our Town is one of the finest achievements of the current stage." -- Brooks Atkinson
About the Author
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works, exploring the connection between the commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience, continue to be read and produced around the world. His Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, as did two of his four full-length dramas, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). Wilder's The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly!. He also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, the opera, and films. (His screenplay for Hitchcock's Shadow of Doubt [1943] remains a classic psycho-thriller to this day.) Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature.
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Thornton Wilder's "Our Town:" a wonderful portrayal of small-town American life at the dawn of the twentieth century.
By Mike Powers
“Our Town” is Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning three-act play that depicts life in a fictional New England town at the beginning of the twentieth century. Set in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire, the play follows the daily lives of two prominent middle-class families: the Gibbses and Webbs, who are next-door neighbors.
Almost a half-century ago, I played the part of Howie Newsome, one of the play’s minor characters, in a high school production of “Our Town.” Nearly five decades later, I had the privilege of playing the Stage Manager in a local community theater production. At that time, I decided to purchase a Kindle edition of the play instead of the more traditional paperback version.
I was very pleasantly surprised at how convenient and useful my Kindle edition of “Our Town” turned out to be. It proved itself excellent, not only for sheer reading enjoyment, but also for its value as a tool for memorizing lines. The print is large and easy to read, and the format of each page makes it easy for users to quickly locate the lines they need to study and commit to memory.
It’s a daunting task trying to describe my deep appreciation for “Our Town,” both as a work of literature and as a dramatic representation of small-town American life at the dawn of the twentieth century. Wilder’s script speaks to what he calls "the eternal in us" with words that I find both a challenge and a comfort. On one level, “Our Town” is simple, folksy, and down-to-earth, but at its core, it’s deeply philosophical.
One reason why “Our Town” resonates with me is the way Thornton Wilder constantly encourages audiences to stretch their imaginations to the fullest. He does this by employing highly innovative dramatic devices – like the lack of scenery and props, and the Stage Manager, who breaks the “fourth wall” and speaks directly to the audience, thereby serving as narrator, sage, philosopher, and oracle.
Our Town comes as close to being a "perfect" play as I’ve ever read. In his Foreword to the “Perennial Classics” Kindle edition, playwright Donald Margulies calls "Our Town" "perhaps THE American play.” I heartily agree with his assessment. Wilder’s wonderful portrayal of small town life is simply masterful, and his hopeful message – that “someday, the eternal in us will come out – clear." – is timeless. Most highly recommended.
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Three Masterpeices of Dramatic Art
By Gary F. Taylor
Thornton Wilder's reputation as a playwright rests upon three works: the 1938 drama OUR TOWN; the 1943 comedy THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH; and the 1955 THE MATCHMAKER, a farce re-written from a previously failed play titled THE MERCHANT OF YONKERS. The first two of these titles won Pulitzer Prizes; the final title would go on to become the basis for the musical comedy HELLO, DOLLY!, one of the most popular Broadway shows of the 20th Century.
Although its "out of town" opening was nothing short of a debacle, OUR TOWN first charmed and then stunned audiences and critics alike when it reached New York--partly through Wilder's staging concepts (the play is performed on a bare stage and without scenery or hand props) but most particularly through Wilder's delicate story of an ordinary New Hampshire town in the earliest part of the 20th Century. In the first act we become acquainted with the Gibbs and Webb families; in the second act we learn how George Gibbs and Emily Webb come to fall in love and marry. It is charming, guiless stuff--until the third act brings us the town cemetery, where the dead contemplate the nature of life, death, and eternity.
Written in the darkest days of World War II, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH is a proto-absurdist comedy about an "everyman" family: Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their son Henry, their daughter Gladys, and their sultry housemaid Sabina, who live in middleclass comfort in New Jersey. But it is also, most curiously, the middle of the ice age! As the play progresses, Wilder drags the Antrobus family from Noah's flood to the aftermath of an apocalyptic, global war--even as the actors break ranks, dispute the merits of the play, refuse to play scenes, and are sent rushing to the hospital with food poisoning. Can they finish the show? More to the point, can the human race survive?
THE MATCHMAKER is, of course, the famous story of Dolly Gallegher Levi--a busybody who is determined to marry the wealthy Horace Vandergelder. But Horace is stuffy; who wants a husband like that? By putting her hand in here and there, Dolly contrives to unstuff the stuffy, bring the unhappy lovers together, create two new romances, and do well by herself and all those around her.
Wilder was not fond of realistic theatre and all three plays are similar in that they are styled in a very theatrical manner. As noted, OUR TOWN is done without scenery; in a classic production you can see the back wall of the stage itself. THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH is also highly stylized, with bits of the stage flying away and then reappearing, and in all three titles characters suddenly turn to speak to the audience directly--and now and then even emerge from the audience itself.
All of this was very cutting edge for its time, but what really sets Wilder apart is his talent for mixing a slight story with a depth of poetry and theme that rarely occurs on the stage. His plays bring forth great, fundamental questions. What is eternity? What is the future of mankind? What is the nature of happiness? What is life worth--and can it be lived to any point or purpose? His responses are eloquent and more often light than dark.
Samuel French Inc., which holds the amateur performance rights to all these titles, notes that OUR TOWN is performed at least once a day in some part of the world. It is generally regarded as the single best known play of American theatre. Although seldom performed in America today, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH remains a landmark drama--and is very popular indeed in Europe and most particularly in Germany. And THE MATCHMAKER, although often outshined by its cousin HELLO, DOLLY! remains a favorite as well.
These three plays are presented with a preface by John Guare. Frankly, they would be better left to speak for themselves. Guare seems a great deal less interested in Wilder than in his friends, and most particularly so in Gertrude Stein. The result is a bite of over-written and over-heated academia at its least impressive. Considerably better are the end notes by Tappan Wilder, which describe the original productions and the wider impact of each. But with or without foreword and end notes, these are three masterpieces by a master artist working at the height of his powers. American classics, all three.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Classics that are deserving of the term
By L. Runkle
Skin of Our Teeth and Our Town both were prize-winning plays. The Matchmaker became one of the most popular musicals of all time - Hello Dolly. Thornton Wilder's plays are in production at countless high schools across the country, and that's a pity - few students have the maturity or insight to bring these words strongly to life.
Skin of Our Teeth, the story of the Antrobus family in stone age Atlantic City, NJ, deals with indomitable humanity, and how we can prevail against all odds, but especially against our own impulses. It also brings up the consolations of literature and of past times.
Our Town is a simple little play about love and death, and how life is composed as a series of moments. It is so important to live in every, every, moment.
The Matchmaker is about living life to the fullest, even in the midst of grief and aging.
This makes these plays sound dreadfully simplistic, and full of high-school style morality. Thornton Wilder's writing is full of irony, wit, grace, kind humor, and style. His writing has a deceptive simplicity and rhythm. Read these plays to bring some beauty into your life.
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