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Welcome to… this play that we’re doing. Our Town. We're gonna show you some… well, like, I’m just going to show you around our rehearsal. We go up in a month. We’re not ready. But here we are.
Our Play captures the lives of high school students as they mount a production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, mirroring the classic’s style and structure in three acts: rehearsal, opening night and the tragic school shooting that follows. A beautiful inspection of high school adolescence, community in a high school theatre, and the hopes and fears of growing into a life.
Winner of the 2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, which honors new American plays providing dynamic performance opportunities for college-aged actors, Our Play premiered at the Wendy Kurka Rust Flexible Theater at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Giardeau, Missouri on March 1, 2024.