I'm going to have re- re-read this play! I;ve always found it sappy and sentimental, and overwhelmingly sad, but you make such good points that I think I should give this class another chance.
My biggest challenge was directing my producer and her husband in the first play I ever directed, An Ordinary Woman Under Stress. I did OK, but gave her a lot of slack. Heck, I barely knew what I was doing, so she got to do a lot of what she wanted…
About Our Town
Because of its basis in the small-town life of a now long-gone era, Our Town has
come to be seen by many as a sentimental homage to small-town life, “an
immortal tale of small-town morality” (NY Times) – and the numerous high
scho…
I am fortunate enough to live in a community where the majority of my audience are retired. I get volunteers to come, sit in the back of the theater during rehearsals, and then give me comments on who they could and could not hear. These make great…