Our Town

Our Town Our Town is a play about ordinary people doing ordinary things in an ordinary town. All of these ordinaries make the play quite extraordinary. No other play is as universal as it is; everyone from all walks of life can connect with the play. Everyone lives in their own little town, or if not a town, their own little section of a much bigger city. Every young man experiences what George Gibbs went …

…problems. The play Our Town does this beautifully. If it were given the ending of the movie it would be entirely different. You don't think about life after that ending. Instead you think what a nice play. I wonder where I'm going to get dinner. I also think the play ending is more realistic, since no one is brought back to life like that, that ending stretches beyond the reaches of willing suspension of disbelief.