March 17 & 18, 7:00 PM March 18 & 19 Matinee, 2:30 PM
Another Day's Begun Thornton Wilder's classic, Pulitzer-prize winning play is returning to the NCP stage for the first time since 1998. Our Town is a timely reflection on the importance of appreciating the life we have and those with whom we live it.
The Story of the Play In the first act the author genially outlines the history of the town, Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, and something of the character of its citizens. Then he carries you into the houses of the Gibbs and Webb families, substantial homes containing substantial folks. You arrive at breakfast and are carried through one day in the lives of these good people.
The second act concerns the love affair between young George Gibbs and little Emily Webb, and thus culminates in a moving wedding scene, which contains all those elements of poignant sorrow and abundant happiness that make for solemnity and impressiveness.
In the third act we are led to the cemetery on the hill, where many of the townspeople we have come to know so well are patiently and smilingly awaiting not “judgment” but greater understanding. Into their midst is led the bride, a little timid at first, a little wishful to go back to life, to live again with her memories. But she is shown how impossible, how futile it is to return. The past cannot be re-lived. Living people, humans, occupied with their petty occupations and small thoughts, know little of true joy or happiness. Truth is to be found only in the future.
