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Piece Description
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer prize winning play, Our Town, is set at the turn of the century in the fictional town of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, it's a place where everyone knows everyone else and life is - well.... ordinary.
It could even be called a 1938 version of the Seinfeld show - "a show about nothing."
In Goshen Corners, actors play townspeople as they go about their daily lives. They work, they go to church, they gossip, and they flirt.....
But this rural, small town life may not resonate with modern, urban audiences, so True Colors Theater company in Atlanta has updated the play - casting the families to look a little more like today's America.
Broadcast History
Aired WABE, Atlanta, February 23, 2010
Intro and Outro
INTRO:Use long description, or this:
When Director Kenny Leon first considered Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town, for his True Colors Theater Company this season, he knew he had a problem. The play is an American theater classic, but its setting and time frame, makes it felt a little bit dated.
How could Leon make the play relevant for Atlanta’s modern, urban audience?
Philip Graitcer [GREAT-sir] has this story.
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