What an amazing performance - congratulations Triad Stage and UNCSA on another great show. | Bookmarks Bookstoreīring a story, bring a friend, or simply listen in to an evening of stories. Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder Salem College professor Edyta Oczkowicz will talk about Wilder and his literary innovations. The program, which gave 6.575 million to 51 communities in 34 states, is called Our Town, after Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play (NEA Chairman). Lincoln Konkle, in Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition, persuasively argues that Our Town is a theatrical recasting of a classic American homiletical genre: the Puritan jeremiad. Sunday, February 18 following 2:00pm show Our Town conveys both the beautiful truth of the sacredness of human lives and the unsettling fact that most human beings are blind to it. A partnership production with UNC School of the Arts. Performances at Hanesbrands Theatre in Winston-Salem. Eighteen years later, Our Town opened in Princeton. Set in an All-American small town at the turn of the century, this 80th anniversary production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play is a heartwarming and deeply moving reminder to appreciate life while one has it and to relish every moment – no matter how mundane it seems – for it is those small moments that are truly miraculous. The idea for the Pulitzer Prize-winning play first occurred to Thornton Wilder during a visit to Rome. The doctor makes house calls, the teenage boy delivers the paper and the Boy-Next-Door meets the Girl-Next-Door. For the citizens of Grover’s Corners, life is sweet.
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