28 from Methuen Drama), debunks through discussion of a dozen productions. In the decades since, it has gained a reputation for fusty sentimentality, a misperception that Howard Sherman’s new oral history, “Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’ in the 21st Century” (out Jan.
22, 1938, at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J., it swiftly moved to Broadway, and won that year’s Pulitzer Prize for drama. If the storytelling Stage Manager is the play’s marquee role, Emily is its beating heart - and a rare complex canonical part for young actresses just starting out.Īfter “Our Town” made its premiere on Jan. She vows that she’ll make speeches all her life, then falls in love with George Gibbs, the boy next door. When that realization lands, late and joltingly, it arrives by way of a character we may have underestimated: Emily Webb, the brainy daughter of the town’s newspaper editor. It’s a boldly experimental play about the beauty of the everyday, and human beings’ tragic propensity to look right past that.
But Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” set amid the mountains there, is no folksy paean to simplicity. Life is a quiet affair in Grover’s Corners, N.H.
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