the representation of the daily life in Our Town * Table of Contents 1 Introduction 3 2 Biographical Background 4 3 Our Town 5 3.1 General 5 3.2 Theme 5 3.3 Publication 5 4 Analysis 6 4.1 Act 1 6 4.2 Act 2 7 4.3 Act 3 8 5 Conclusion 10 6 Bibliography 12 6.1 Primary Literature 12 6.2 Secondary Literature 12 6.3 Webliography 12 Introduction Needless to say‚ Our Town is one of the most popular plays by Thornton Wilder and not for nothing has
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Donta’ Broussard 1393380 THEA 1331 "Our Town" Described by Edward Albee as "......the greatest American play ever written."Our Town explores traditional American values of community‚ religion‚ family‚ and the simple leisures while adding an unusual set‚ a Stage Manager who narrates and controls the action. Our Town addresses themes as mortality‚ the human condition‚ and the value of everyday life. In Our Town‚ the main role belongs to the Stage Manager‚ who jokes with the audience‚ narrates
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Our Town In the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder‚ Wilder uses the experience of young girl to symbolize his themes throughout his play. These themes revolve around the essence of Human Companionship‚ the representation of life and death through day and night‚ and the value of life and how it is a special gift. Wilder’s character Emily‚ who’s experience he uses‚ is a typical American girl in the early 1900’s who is just living out her life in the typical American Town of Grover’s Corners in
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a brief sum up‚ Our Town is a play based only on imagination. If you don’t have an imagination‚ you’ll be staring at a bare stage because there are few props on stage. It is a play based on life; its shown as how the author sees it‚ relates to it and lives in it. He shows us that we take our lives for granted as we watch two families in the 1900’s. The author is Thornton Wilder. It was written in 1934-1938‚ United States and publishes in 1938 by Coward-McCann‚ Inc. Wilder’s play defies most conventional
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Our Town‚ a play by Thornton Wilder‚ describes an ordinary‚ small town‚ called Grover’s Corners‚ through the day-to-day lives of its residents. Wilder develops an unusual character called the Stage Manager. The Stage Manager in this play is unlike any other stage manager. In fact‚ he is a unique figure who goes beyond the functions of a typical stage manager. Although he acts as a narrator throughout the play‚ the Stage Manager is more than just a storyteller. The Stage Manager plays a crucial role
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author throughout the play Our Town. For example‚ the time capsule mentioned by the Stage Manager in Act One symbolizes the belief that specific things from the past should be remembered. The Stage Manager says‚ "So I’m going to have a copy of this play put in the cornerstone and the people a thousand years from now’ll know a few simple facts about us..." This symbolizes not only the want for people to appreciate the lives of the townspeople‚ but also the fact that the play is mentioned dissolves
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Through December 5th through the 7th‚ I performed in Thornton Wilder’s play of Our Town. The only sets or props that the actors or actresses used where folding chairs for us to sit in‚ umbrellas to hide Emily (Julie Dumbler)‚ and flats on both sides of the stage to hide the people behind them. The reason for the lack of set is so the audience can use there imagination of what the town of Grover’s Corner‚ New Hampshire looks like. All the rest of the props that the actors had to use were pan mimed
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Our Town is a play that takes place near the turn of the century in the small rural town of Grover’s Corners‚ New Hampshire. The playwright‚ Thornton Wilder is trying to convey the importance of the little‚ often unnoticed things in life. Throughout the first two acts he builds a scenario‚ which allows the third act to show that we as humans often run through life oblivious to what is actually happening. Wilder attempts to show life as something that we take for granted. We do not realize
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for the play Our Town. Our Town is a play I will never forget. I do not know how‚ and I do not know why‚ but somehow God used this play to reveal Himself once more to me. He gave to me a cast that treated me as family and a plot that told of greater moments than this life. Our Town depicted what most consider to be unimportant‚ everyday activities and revealed their intrinsic value with each line and stage direction. In rehearsal we discussed multiple times the significance of this play and how it
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resources that I picked for my final journal are ‘Not In Our Town’ and the CNN article about Officer Elsokary in New York City. The reason why I picked “Not In Our Town” is because this article shows that people are sometimes really mean‚ rude and obnoxious‚ but it also shows that people are sometimes nice‚ caring‚ kind and supportive. The attacks and this story took place in Billings‚ Montana. The attacks were against people in the town who were Jewish. The reason why I picked the CNN article is
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