Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A family at breakfast, women shelling peas, teenagers heading home from school -- it's a simple thing, the famous play leading off what the Public Theater calls its Masterpiece Season. But it earns its deceptively simple title, "Our Town," in many ways.
Most obviously, it takes the comfortable perspective of the inhabitants of Grover's Corners, pop. 2,642. Even as they tell their modest story, led by an avuncular Stage Manager -- part friend, part secular priest, part disarmingly frank theatrical convenience -- they hardly reckon they have a story to tell. It's just their town, ordinary from sunrise to sunset, birth to death and beyond.
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It's interesting when plays like this, which function as a snapshot of the time period they were written in, continue to entertain audiences. i would imagine that it was a conscious choice on the director's part for all the actors to be local. If so, it becomes an interesting play on the name "Our Town", as it becomes a bit more meta-textual.
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