| re: forty carats | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 01:48 pm EDT 09/02/24 | |
| In reply to: re: forty carats - huskyital 01:12 pm EDT 09/02/24 | |
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| I, for one, ALWAYS need to see "Our Town" again. I read it in high school, saw the movie, saw "Grover's Corners," the musical, done at Marriott Lincolnshire outside Chicago (I took my mother--it was the last live theatre she saw before she died), saw Cromer's production twice (one with Cromer, once with Michael Shannon--both equally fine in very different ways), and, because I taught college speech and theatre for forty years, countless students in classes and forensics competition, perform the soda fountain scene and Emily's Act III monologue. Ot never grows old or stale for me. After reading plays and attending theatre for more than fifty years, I have come to the conclusion that, at least for me, insofar as such phrases have any meaning other than to spur conversation, "Our Town" is my choice for the Great American Play (with all due deference to O'Neill, Miller, Williams, and Hellman, all of whom I love--and more recent candidates like WIlson and Kushner). It is a deeply serious and poetic play--as considered an exploration of the tragic vision as any other play in the canon. Your mileage, of course, may vary. I would love to see the new production, but, because my husband advances ion that one-way road called Alzheimer's, it is doubtful I will. And that, in a sense, is also part of Wilder's extraordinary vision. |
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