IHS PLAY - OUR TOWN
Iola High School's Drama Department presents OUR TOWN, a play by Thorton Wilder.
$5.00 General Admission (USD 257 Students FREE)
Our Town (1938) is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
Act 1 presents an ordinary day in 1901.
Act 2 starts three years later, after childhood friends George and Emily have fallen in love and intend to marry.
Act 3, taking place in 1913, is retrospective and philosophical. Birth, life and death flow on in Grovers Corners, like water on a river, always moving but the river stays the same or changes ever so slowly. We are shown images that tell us Emily has died after giving birth to her second child, and of her funeral. During and after her funeral, her ghost converses with other ghosts of dead persons in the Grovers Corners cemetery.
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
