6/26/2023 0 Comments Our town wilder“Our Town” won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1938. And so, Wilder suggests, is the ordinary day we’re sitting in right now, if we have eyes to see. For Emily, from this vantage point, the poignancy, the vibrancy, the beauty of this ordinary day is overwhelming. This soliloquy - one of the most indelible in American letters - takes place near the end of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” Emily Webb has died, and the Stage Manager has accompanied her as she revisits her family (though they can’t see her) in an earlier time, fourteen years prior. While they live it? – every, every minute? Take me back – up the hill – to my grave. We don’t have time to look at one another. Thornton Wilders Our Town is Americas answer to Shakespeare The Pulitzer-winning drama, set in the small town of Grover’s Corners, has a beating heart that will resonate through the years.
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