Our Town

The Play

In Grover’s Corner, a little Northamerican town at the beginning of the XX Century, the life of its habitants –like the families Gibbs and Webb – goes by the time in a simple, daily existence that hides the secret of life and death in its simplicity. Also the secret of happiness.

The touching humanism of Our Town is comprehensible for any culture, any time and any spectator wherever it is. And this walk through the daily life of a small community of the last century –a theatrical walk that takes seventeen years and talks about 22 characters- reveals with simplicity, sincerity, the truth of poetry… everything that we miss and we wish to find: the place where our happiness is hidden.

The Author

Thornton Wilder (1897 – 1975)

Our Town is the most done play in the USA; there’s no day without being played in the country. The plays of Thorton Wilder are studied and done in every school and all the nothamericans know them from their childhood. His fame was so big even in his life that impressed Alfred Hitchcock when he work with him during the writing of the script for “Shadow of a doubt, 1942). Book writer besides theatre writer, and winner of 2 pullitzer awards. The influence of Wilder in the whole world is, nowadays, huge.

Con la colaboración de la Comunidad de Madrid.