“Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you,” she says as she takes her place among the dead.

In the final moments of the play, the recently deceased Emily is granted the opportunity to revisit one day in her life, only to discover that she never fully appreciated all she possessed until she lost it. The simple story of a love affair is constantly rediscovered because it asks timeless questions about the meaning of love, life and death. The play returned to Broadway four times: in 1944 starring Marc Connelly in 1969. Wilder offers a couple of chairs on a bare stage as the backdrop for an exploration of the universal human experience. The newlyweds run out through the audience, and the second act ends with the Stage Managers announcement that it is time for another intermission. The original cast featured Frank Craven, Martha Scott and John Craven. When Emily looses her life in childbirth, the circle of life portrayed in each of the three acts of Our Town–growing up, adulthood, and death–is fully realized. Our Town explores the relationship between two young Grover’s Corners neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage. Country United States Screenplay Information Based on the play Our Town by Thornton Wilder (New York, ). From the very beginning, Our Town has been produced throughout the world. Film Details Genre Drama Adaptation Release Date Premiere Information not available Production Company Principal Artists Productions Distribution Company United Artists Corp. Thornton Wilder’s most frequently performed play, Our Town appeared on Broadway in 1938 to wide acclaim, and won the Pulitzer Prize. This timeless drama of life in the mythical village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, has become an American classic with universal appeal.

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