By Kilian Melloy
The good people of Grover’s Corner seem like American archetypes. They’re our neighbors, our local merchants and civil servants, our family members; they are us. Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play Our Town celebrates small-town America even as it mythologizes an ideal of family and community. Set in the early years of the 20th Century — the play begins in 1901 — it’s a story not just of a town, or a nation, but of most comprehensive of universalities: Human life itself. Over the course of three acts, the people of Grover’s Corner grow up, grow older, and face life transitions: Maturity, marriage, parenthood, and, eventually, the end of life.
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