When Our Town appeared on Broadway in 1938 to wide acclaim and won a Pulitzer, it broke accepted rules of theater with its bare stage: without scenery, curtain or props. Can Wilder’s fictional Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire - set between 19, with its very specific landscape and history - speak to us in our more complicated time? A daringly different play Sometimes, however, what some imagine to be folks-writ-large is merely the perspective of a specific group of people. Thornton Wilder once said, “I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.” His most widely produced play, Our Town, aims to remind us of our universal humanity.
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