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Our Town
by Thorton Wilder (1897 - 1975)

Type of Work:

Presentational life drama

Setting

Grover's Corners, New Hampshire; 1901 to 1913

Principal Characters

Stage Ma Beer, the play's all-wise narrator
Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs, an ordinary small- town physician and housewife
George Gibbs, their son
Mr. and Mrs. Webb, a news editor and his wife
Emily Webb, their daughter
Simon Stimson, the town drunkard and church choir organist
A conglomeration of other ordinary people living out ordinary lives

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