This play was written by Thornton Wilder, an American playwright and novelist, who is a Pulitzer Prize winner (as the cover of the book screams). He won the first Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey in 1928. Ten years later, he published the play Our Town that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, too. He got the third prize for another play called The Skin of Our Teeth in 1942.
I have to say that this is quite impressive.
In order to present you where this play is set in, I would quote what the Stage Manager in the play says: "The name of the town is Groover's Corners, New Hampshire--just across the Massachusetts line: latitude 42 degrees 40 minutes, longtitude 70 degrees 37 minutes." And that is the only location where this play takes place.
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| That's how I imagine the town |
The whole play is set in the beginning of the twentieth century and describes life of an average citizen called George Gibbs. Well, looking at the list of characters in the book when half of the names is either Webb or Gibbs, it seems that we will be dealing with two families of the Groover's Corners town.
Let's hope that the story will be interesting since it seems like none of the characters is about to travel around the world to discover the misteries of South America.
