LSU School of Theatre presents: Our Town
Our Town
LSU School of Theatre Production
Our Town
by Thorton Wilder
Directed by Shannon Walsh
February 13 - 24, 2019
Shaver Theatre
Thornton Wilder’s minimalist 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play takes on new relevance in this updated interpretation. Join us in Grover’s Corners as we watch two families grow, change, and weather life’s ultimate transition together. Emphasizing the ordinary magic of everyday details, the importance of belonging, and the inevitability of loss, LSU’s Our Town offers a refreshing tonic for a troubled world.
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Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition by
ISBN: 9780826216243Publication Date: 2006-01-20Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition is the first reading of Wilder's life, fiction, drama, and criticism as a product of American culture. Early American studies by Sacvan Bercovitch, Mason Lowance Jr., Emory Elliott, and others have identified aspects of the American literary tradition stemming from New England Puritan writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Lincoln Konkle extends the argument for continuity into both the twentieth century and the profane space of the theater. -
Thornton Wilder by
ISBN: 9780804421195Publication Date: 1986-12-01Briefly traces the life of the Pulitzer Prize winning author, discusses his major novels and plays, and examines his approach to structure and pacing. -
Thornton Wilder by
ISBN: 9780805772234Publication Date: 1978-06-01A biographical study of Wilder's career with an interpretation and assessment of his literary accomplishments. -
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Thornton Wilder and His Public by
ISBN: 9780529057365Publication Date: 1980-01-01Thornton Wilder, three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, remains to many people an enigma. Malcolm Cowley indicated that "in point of intelligent criticism, Wilder is the most neglected author of a brilliant generation" and the Times Literary Supplement once observed that "Thornton Wilder has successfully resisted any kind of classification as a novelist or playwright" In this revealing, incisive study, Amos Wilder, Thornton's older brother, seeks to situate his brother's vision and art. Much criticism, dominated my modernist canons, has not known what to do with Thornton Wilder and finds suspect his wide popularity and what is seen as his traditionalist or "mid-brow" outlook informed by "Puritan" antecedents and rearing. The present essay, however, documents Wilder's full initiation into the "modern" experience, only insisting that he absorbed its iconoclasms into a deeper and more universal humanism. Critical circles, in their view of the American Writer in our day, commonly neglect and disparage those legacies, cultural and religious, which shaped Wilder's outlook. Therefore, the central section of this essay is devoted to biographical detail, illustrating those creative factors and faiths that undergird American society and its promise. Many readers will be aided in their understanding of Wilder by this book's description of the special circumstances of his education, formative influences, and family life. Thornton Wilder and His Public offers rare, intimately informed, and helpful illumination on the life and art of one of America's greatest literary figures. -
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Conversations with Thornton Wilder by
ISBN: 9780878055142Publication Date: 1992-01-01Known today primarily as the author of Our Town, probably America's most beloved and widely produced play, Thornton Wilder is the only writer ever to be honored with Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and drama. This collection of interviews with Wilder covers the full range of his sixty-year career as one of America's leading men of letters. In addition to American interviews, this book includes translations of interviews published originally in French and German that have never appeared in English previously. It includes a transcription of a rare radio interview conducted by Rex Stout and an extensive Paris Review conversation between Wilder and Richard H. Goldston, his first biographer. -
Thornton Wilder: an annotated bibliography of works, by and about Thornton Wilder by
ISBN: 9780404180461Publication Date: 1982-01-01
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Thornton Wilder Discusses His Work byOn this episode of Camera Three, Jose Quintero, Louis Kronenberger, and Thornton Wilder discuss the benefits and drawbacks of representational theater and arena staging. Watch Quintero direct actors in a rehearsal of Plays for Bleeker Street for Circle in the Square Theatre.
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Our town : character studies conversationsIn Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, the time is 1901 and the place is America's collective memory. But Thornton Wilder's Our Town is not the sentimental nostalgia piece most people perceive. This program hosted by Eli Wallach offers wide-ranging and extraordinarily deep insights into the play from those who arguably know it best: Our Town alumni who over the years have brought the play to life on stage and screen. Interviews with Paul Newman (Stage Manager); Cynthia Nixon and Maggie Lacey (Emily Webb); Paul Newman, Ben Fox, Harvey Evans, and Eric Stoltz (George Gibbs); James Rebhorn (Doc Gibbs); Frances Conroy (Mrs. Gibbs); Jeff DeMunn (Editor Webb); and Stephen Spinella (Simon Stimson) are featured. Our Town director James Naughton and Tom Jones, writer of the musical adaptation Grover's Corners, also contribute.
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The Thornton Wilder Society Teaching Materials on "Our Town"The Thornton Wilder Society has the twofold purpose of supporting efforts which expand the literary legacy of Thornton Wilder and of encouraging projects which emphasize the timeless importance of literature and drama to world culture.