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Our father died on this day in 1974. I have written of him often, which you can find in the book or on the link below. This is how the older four of us remember him, summer-tanned, at Lake Contoocook near Jaffrey, New Hampshire (not far from Thornton Wilder's mythical Grovers Corners), where we spent two weeks every July during our carefree baby-booming youth. When night fell we'd gather 'round the...
Or not. One's safer, one's probably more fun. While I was in Shanghai, one of the teaching assistants asked me if I had ever read Our Town by Thornton Wilder. No, managed to skip that. She was amazed -- I...
It has been a rather, well, busy last 10 days or so. Some of these days were ones that if someone were to tell me, as many do, that "I wouldn't want your job" I would have agreed. Today was not one of those days. Because today, I got to perform the marriage of Allison and Joshua Shandy at her parents home north of Odessa. I have not performed a wedding for three and half years, maybe longer, and I...
Our Town by Thornton Wilder Directed by David Cromer presented by The Hypocrites I've never much liked Our Town . There. I said it. The "aw shucks" sentiment, the falsely sweet nostalgia for an America that once was and will never be again, the gosh darned forced cornpone-ness of it all has always made me gag. I can't actually recall the one and only time I saw it live in the past but I remember the...
The other day, while sifting through my Pile of Chaos (potential readings for my fall classes), I uncovered my beloved copy of Thornton Wilder’s essay, “Some Thoughts on Playwriting”. Written in a sure but quiet tone, it illuminates some of the differences between theatrical literature and fiction, describing (in a wonderful phrase) the “eternal [...]
Thornton Wilder's The Skin Of Our Teeth , despite having won a Pulitzer, is a play that's hard to appreciate on anything more than an intellectual level. It's clear the author's intent (mostly a commentary on the devastation of war and how we're destined to repeat our mistakes). There are more than a few clever literary allusions, many of them Biblical. The play's dour, end-of-the-world message certainly...
Went to a play last night. It's not all sand, surf, and seafood for us down here. Occasionally we go in for some culture. Play was Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, the play Hello Dolly! is based on and it was put on by the Ohio University Players, a summer rep company in residence here, made up mostly of college theater majors with some New York pros brought in to mentor the kids and take on roles...
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. From the back of the book: THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, Thornton Wilder's second novel, won him the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes. The novel opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy - a tiny footbridge in Peru breaks, and five people hurtle to their deaths. For Brother Juniper, a humble monk who witnesses...
“Our Town” is usually a bare stage production. The script stipulates that little scenery be built, and only tables, chairs and ladders be used. In fact, playwright Thornton Wilder refused to allow a musical or operatic adaptation of his classic 1938 play in his lifetime.
I remember wondering, when I read Thornton Wilder's Our Town in high school, how the play could possibly be interesting when staged. The script calls for no set, no props, and minimal scenery. It's something that only sometimes works in modern (as opposed to "Modern") theatre, so the idea of a play written in the thirties that takes place between 1901–1913 and uses the type of set typically reserved...
This week's quote comes from Thornton Wilder's Our Town , which opens next week at the Arden with a twist: Our Town will be set in our town. Now, on with the listings! House, Divided - After all: united we stand. May 23-June 22. Tickets online . Our Town - In Old City. May 22-June 22. Tickets online . The Woolgatherer - He shears sheep. May 21-June 1. Tickets online . Beautiful Boy - Not as sung by...
D avid Cromer has directed some distinguished Chicago productions in his career, including Next Theatre's "The Adding Machine," for which he just snagged a bucket-load of award nominations. But I think his brilliantly revisionist and astounding new production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" by The Hypocrites is his masterwork to date. And it takes place in a Wicker Park basement for 20 bucks a ticket....
Not a word is changed, not a character rewritten, but the Our Town that the Arden Theatre will open in Old City this month is not exactly the white-bread slice of New England that Thornton Wilder wrote about in 1938. It's more like . . . well . . . our town: Its cast of 29 is just about split down the middle - half white, half black.
It's a dreary, rainy day here in Georgia. So what better way to chase the gloom than by shopping and spending money!! First I went to the library book sale. It started yesterday, but I didn't go. Today, being the last day, the books were reduced to 25 cents each. I wound up with 9: HOSPITAL by Marcia Rose, B.S. I LOVE YOU by Milton Berle (Dom loves him!), THE FIFTH VIAL by Michael Palmer, THE LAST...
