OUP TOWN by THORNTON WILDER Thisisadefinitive edition ofThornton Wilder's best-known andmostfrequently performed play. First produced andpub- lished in1938, atwhich timeitwonthe Pulitzer Prize, itsreputation asanAmeri- canclassic hasincreased overtheyears. Brooks Atkinson, inhisreview ofOur Town's first performance, hadthistosay: 'Taking ashismaterial three periods. Our Town is a play about what we (and Thornton Wilder) thought America and Americans were. The characters in Our Town tell us what they knew of life, its pain and hope, its simplicity and truth. Thornton Wilder’s play is often viewed as saying that life is meaningful only when lived with full awareness of the value of the present moment.
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Our Town Play Script Act 3
| Title | : | our town |
| Air Date | : | 05.12.1939 ( May 12, 1939) |
| Plot | : | + 'Our Town'. Sponsored by: Campbell's Soup. The first radio performance of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Thornton Wilder. Good radio! An excellent production of a superb play.+ Our Town written by Thornton Wilder was one of the “classics of modern American theatre” and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the best play of 1938. There was much talk when it was first produced in the theatre because it was performed without scenery or props and with the lovable garrulous stage manager filling in gaps and explaining things as it went along. In this play Orson Welles plays that part and John Craven plays George the role he created in the original stage production. |
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| Title | : | our town |
| Air Date | : | 05.12.1939 |
| Plot | : | + 'Our Town'. Sponsored by: Campbell's Soup. The first radio performance of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Thornton Wilder. Good radio! An excellent production of a superb play.+ Our Town written by Thornton Wilder was one of the “classics of modern American theatre” and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the best play of 1938. There was much talk when it was first produced in the theatre because it was performed without scenery or props and with the lovable garrulous stage manager filling in gaps and explaining things as it went along. In this play Orson Welles plays that part and John Craven plays George the role he created in the original stage production. |
| File | : | our_town-1939-05-12.mp3 |
| File Size | : | 13.24Mb |
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