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    Our Town - Thornton Wilder
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    Our Town - Thornton Wilder

    Written by Thornton Wilder

    Narrated by Multiple Narrators

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    About this audiobook

    Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.

    Throughout, Wilder uses metatheatrical devices, setting the play in the actual theatre where it is being performed. The main character is the stage manager of the theatre who directly addresses the audience, brings in guest lecturers, fields questions from the audience, and fills in playing some of the roles. The play is performed without a set on a mostly bare stage. With a few exceptions, the actors mime actions without the use of props.

    Our Town was first performed at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey in 1938.It later went on to success on Broadway and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It remains popular today and revivals are frequent.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOMC Audio
    Release dateMay 3, 2020
    ISBN9781662211737
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    Our Town - Thornton Wilder
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    Thornton Wilder

    Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works, exploring the connection between the commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience, continue to be read and produced around the world. His Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, as did two of his four full-length dramas, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). Wilder's The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly!. He also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, the opera, and films. (His screenplay for Hitchcock's Shadow of Doubt [1943] remains a classic psycho-thriller to this day.) Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature.

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    • 1/5
      Why only two chapters? That doesn’t make sense to me. Am I missing something
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      Wow I wasn’t expecting it to be this impactful love it