“Good-bye, Good-bye world. Good-bye, Grover’s Corners…. Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clocks ticking…. and Mama’s sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths…. and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you are too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it – every, every minute?”
– Thornton Wilder, Our Town (1938)

Our Town is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play that explores life in the fictional New Hampshire town of Grover’s Corners. The play is known for its simple costumes, lack of scenery, and Stage Manager who breaks the fourth wall to speak to the audience. It’s considered a classic American play and a staple of American theater. Wilder is the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and drama.