Our Town
Full Length Play, Drama / 17m, 7f
Winner! 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"While all of Wilder's work is intelligent, non-synthetic and often moving, as well as funny, it is Our Town that makes the difference. It is probably the finest play ever written by an American." - Edward Albee
Our Town
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Cast Size
17m, 7fDuration
More than 120 minutes (2 hours)Subgenre
Not ApplicableAccolades
Tony, Pulitzer, From Broadway, From Off-BroadwaySuggested Use
- Monologues
- Scene work
Target Audience
- Appropriate for all audiences
Additional Info
Accolades
- Winner! 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Reviews
...one of the sagest, warmest and most deeply human scripts to have come out of our theatre." - New York Post
REVIEWS:
"While all of Wilder's work is intelligent, non-synthetic and often moving, as well as funny, it is Our Town that makes the difference. It is probably the finest play ever written by an American." - Edward Albee
"Thornton Wilder's masterpiece [...] An immortal tale of small town morality [and] [...] a classic of soft spoken theater." - The New York Times
"Beautiful and remarkable one of the sagest, warmest and most deeply human scripts to have come out of our theatre [...] A spiritual experience." - New York Post
"No American play describes more powerfully how we imagine ourselves." - New York Daily News
"No play ever moved me so deeply." - Alexander Woolcott, The New Yorker
RELATED ARTICLES ON BREAKING CHARACTER:
Theatre Comes to The Public: Bringing Our Town(s) Together
by Rosey Strub
December 19, 2016
OUR TOWN’s Timeless Qualities: 75 Years in the Making
by Tara Kennedy
January 23, 2012
Videos
Keywords
Adolescence, Aging, Childhood, Christianity, Death, Friendship, Illness/Health, Love, Marriage, Memory, Parenting/Family, ReligionConsiderations
Performing Groups
- Jr High/Primary
- High School/Secondary
- College Theatre / Student
- Community Theatre
- Dinner Theatre
- Professional Theatre
- Church / Religious Groups
- Senior Theatre
- Reader's Theatre
- Shoestring Budget
- Outdoor
- Large Stage
- Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Cautions
- No Special Cautions
License details
- Minimum Fee: $100 per performance
Production
Details
- Time Period: 1900-1910
- Duration: More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
- Setting: The entire play takes place in Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, beginning in May of 1901.
- Additional Features: Not Applicable
- Features / Contains: Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes, Period Costumes
Music
- Musical Style: N/A (Not a musical)
- Vocal Demands: N/A (Not a musical)
- Chorus Size: N/A (Not a musical)
Casting
17m, 7fDR. GIBBS
JOE CROWELL
HOWIE NEWSOME
MRS. GIBBS
MRS. WEBB
GEORGE GIBBS
REBECCA GIBBS
WALLY WEBB
EMILY WEBB
PROFESSOR WILLARD
MR. WEBB
WOMAN IN THE BALCONY
MAN IN THE AUDITORIUM
LADY IN THE BOX
SIMON STIMSON
MRS. SOAMES
CONSTABLE WARREN
SI CROWELL
THREE BASEBALL PLAYERS
SAM CRAIG
JOE STODDARD
PEOPLE OF THE TOWN
Cast Attributes
- Flexible casting
- Room for Extras
- Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
- Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
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