This past Friday, along with a deluge of Rain, Our Town (1938 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama) opened at Seacoast Rep. Currently running Off-Broadway, Written by Thornton Wilder and Directed by Jon Kimbell, former Artistic Director of Theatre by the Sea and North Shore Music Theatre.
First produced in 1938, the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Our Town” is the quintessential American play. Set at the turn of the 20th century, Wilder’s masterpiece is a richly timeless commentary about the fleeting nature of life and the need to appreciate every moment to the fullest, as revealed through the lives of the ordinary citizens of Grovers Corners, New Hampshire.
“Matt Guminski sketches out an elegantly understated light plot, one that is unobtrusive but not lugubrious. Guminski catches on to a deliberate tempo in how and when key moments of OUR TOWN need to be illuminated, and remains faithful to it throughout the course of the play.
There’s no incandescent riot of color or aggressive swirling of texture holding sway over this production; it’s clean and restrained, and does everything it should without being showy or distracting. There are times when the more spartan atmosphere of light and shadow are called for to bring a truly significant luminosity to what’s playing out on stage; Guminski isn’t afraid to exercise a modicum of restraint when it’s called for, and in this, he serves the play well.”
Michael Curtiss, Caught In the Act! & NHtheatre.org
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The show runs till April 4, 2010. Contact the Box Office at 603.433.4472 or visit Seacoast Rep’s website for more info.
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