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>Emily: "Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anyone to realize you... Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?-- every, every minute?"
>Stage Manager: "No."
>April 17th 1897- December 7th 1975
>Creative and Intellectual family
-(Dad): Amos Wilder, was a newspaper owner and editor, and the United States Consul General to Hong Kong
-(Mom): Isabella Wilder, taught her children literature, drama, and languages and wrote poetry.
-(Siblings): 1 brother & 4 sisters ranging from professors, poets, novelist, and theatre curator
>Playwright & Novelist
>3 Pulitzer Prizes
-Novel: 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey'
-Plays: 'Our Town' & 'The Skin of Our Teeth'
>Only person to win both for Drama and Fiction
>Wisconsin born, schooled in California, lived in China, and studied in Rome
>Multilingual in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish,
-Translated plays, most notable Ibsen's 'A Doll House'
>Say goodbye to Broadway
-felt Broadway was too flashy and unrealistic
-After the war wanted to start showing America for what it was
-We needed to stop using the theatre to get away and forget our problems and start using it to face them.
>Experimental Theatre
-broke the 4th wall
-minimal set and props
-Pantomiming
-Metatheatre
>Symbolic Title
-Our Town could be anyone's town
-Helps audience put themselves into play
>Simple story line
-Follows two families the Gibbs and Webb
-George and Emily's childhood, marriage, and death
>Ask the hard questions