![]() ![]() Our Town was first performed at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey in 1938. With a few exceptions, the actors mime actions without the use of props. ![]() The play is performed without a set on a mostly bare stage. ![]() 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. Throughout, Wilder uses metatheatrical devices, setting the play in the actual theatre where it is being performed. The play tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 19 through the everyday lives of its citizens. Our Town is a 1938 metatheatrical three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Grover's Corners, New Hampshire near Massachusetts. 1938 first edition cover from the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Divisionġ901 to 1913. ![]()
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