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Thornton Wilder

By: Brea Walker

Life

>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'

Wilder's Modernism

>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

Our Town

'Our Town' CSU

>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

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