OUR TOWN: The End

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The Third Act

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An educational podcast for entertaining audiences like you! Theatre for the middle class.

Performing Arts

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OUR TOWN: The End

The Third Act

52 minutes 10 seconds

6 months ago

OUR TOWN: The End

In this second part of our two-part series on Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Gracious and Jared discuss more about the significant themes in the show, and summarize the second and third acts: “Love & Marriage” and “Death & Eternity”. We delve into some history and ask…what did Thornton Wilder think about theater during this time and how was he going to change it? Was Our Town successful in fulfilling its purpose?

REFERENCES:

“Our Town” by Thornton Wilder (Foreward by Donald Margulies)

Published by Harper Perennial: Modern Classics

“Stella Adler: The Art of Acting” compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Thornton Wilder Family Website

https://www.thorntonwilder.com/

“Our Town,” Thornton Wilder Page

https://www.thorntonwilder.com/our-town

The Thornton Wilder Society, “Our Town”

https://www.twildersociety.org/works/our-town/

The birth and life of an American classic: “Our Town” (Pulitzer files)

https://www.pulitzer.org/article/birth-and-life-american-classic-our-town