Play Report On Our Town Play

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Anyssa Strauss March 4, 2009 Period: 5 Play Report 8: Our Town The title of this play is Our Town and it was written by Thornton Wilder. The genre of this play not common, it is about human experience. However, if I had to choose one I would say the genre is drama. The style of this play is realism. The main characters I would say are the stage manager, Emily Webb, and George Gibbs. All of these characters are written realistic. I do not think they are symbols or allegories for anything. The setting takes place on Grover's Corners, New Hampshire mostly on Main Street. The time setting for Act I takes place on May 7, 1901; Act II takes place on July 7, 1904, with a flashback to approximately one year earlier; Act III takes place in the…show more content…
Gibbs and Mrs. Webb make breakfast and send their children off to school. Emily Webb and George Gibbs talk after school and we see the first sign that they like each other. Mrs. Webb, Mrs. Gibbs, and Mrs. Soames come back from choir practice and gossip about how Simon Stimson, the choirmaster, is an alcoholic. While this is happening, George and Emily continue talking through their windows to each other. Then Act II starts and it is Emily and George’s wedding day. The stage manager cues a flashback one year ago when George took Emily to Mr. Morgan’s drugstore to get an ice cream soda after they win the election at their high school. We return to the wedding day and Emily and George get married even though they are nervous and the act ends. The third act begins nine years later at Emily’s funeral; she died of childbirth for her second child. Emily is with the dead but misses her life and with the help of the stage manager goes back to the past. She chooses her twelfth birthday and is taking in every moment. She demands to go back to the cemetery because she realizes that living humans do not appreciate every moment as they should and the play

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