Notes on Our Town

In a brief sum up, Our Town is a play based only on imagination. If you don't have an imagination, you'll be staring at a bare stage because there are few props on stage. It is a play based on life; its shown as how the author sees it, relates to it and lives in it. He shows us that we take our lives for granted as we watch two families in the 1900's. The …showed first 75 words of 524 total…

…showed last 75 words of 524 total…in Act II. The Stage Manager's indications in Act I that this play will discuss marriage and then death clue us in to the direction that George and Emily's relationship, which is at the center of the play. This play opens eyes and shows us that we manipulate time, ignore the stages of life, and think the world has ended when a loved one dies. This play is living knowledge that the soul lives on.