Our Town and Other Plays

Name: Our Town and Other Plays
Brand: Thornton Wilder
SKU: 9780141184586
Price: 9.07 GBP
Availability: InStock

by Thornton Wilder

Title:

Author:

Thornton Wilder

Series (if any):

Penguin Modern Classics

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

256 pages

Publisher:

TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale

ISBN-13:

9780141184586

EAN:

9780141184586

Classifications:

Plays, playscripts

Weight (g):

308

Dimensions (mm):

195 x 127 x 18

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£9.07

19 copies in stock

Qty

Description

Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and Our Town is both an affectionate portrait of American life and 'an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life'. The Skin of our Teeth deals with human survival in a 'comic strip' way, and The Matchmaker is a hilarious farce which urges rebellion against all the constraints that deny a rich, full life.