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Thornton Wilder's Last Play Vanished into Thin Air. Or Did It?
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- rzzzt 5mo agoOr Did It? https://youtu.be/uakS1jPO1KA https://youtu.be/uakS1jPO1KA
- wizardforhire 5mo agoWell… finally… Now man is poised for one of the greatest moments in time.
- johndhi 5mo agoSpurred by a line in Vonnegut that 'Our Town is the best piece of writing in history," I recently read Wilder's three most famous plays. They're all fantastic. Our Town is indeed my favorite. I haven't seen it produced - weirdly plays usually don't do it for me - but the joy of the unusual format and fhf remarkable third act really brought out the feels for me. Recommended reading!
- dmccarty2829 5mo agothe only place I have ever seen a Thornton Wilder play is in student theatre in high school
- eszed 5mo agoYou might enjoy reading "Spoon River Anthology", by Edgar Lee Masters, which was one of the inspirations for Our Town. It's a cycle of short free-verse testimonies "spoken" by the dead in a small town cemetery. Reading them builds up a sort of kaleidoscopic portrait of everything that went on there over the course of a generation or two. Each of the characters only speak once, like a epitaph, so all the way through you're putting pieces together, and by the end you're really anticipating what the key figures in a couple of the sub-plots will say. It's really cool! https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1280 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1280