![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilder wanted the play to show “the life of a village against the life of the stars,” he said in an early preface to the book, and to explore “the trivial details of human life in reference to a vast perspective of time, of social history and of religious ideas.” The townspeople know many pleasures: seeing the sun rise over the mountain, noticing the birds, watching for the change of seasons. Thornton Wilder’s stage drama Our Town (1938) takes place between 19 in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, a community that has not produced anyone very “remarkable” (p. “The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go,-doesn’t it?”-the Stage Manager in Our Town (p. ![]()
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