The award winning Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall (TCHH) will perform Our Town, Thornton Wilder’s timeless and much loved drama of American small town life, March 10 through April 3.
Our Town, which indelibly locates the universal in everyday living, is a character story about an “every town’s” citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their daily lives (particularly George Gibbs, a doctor’s son, and Emily Webb, the daughter of the town’s newspaper editor and George’s future wife). Wilder sets the play in a 1930s theater and uses the actions of the Stage Manager to create the town of Grover’s Corners for the audience.
TCHH veterans Randolyn Zinn and Allen McCullough will direct a cast that includes Alexandra Jennings as Emily, Jim Staudt as George, Richard Howe as Mr. Webb, Eric Barnum as Doc Gibbs and McCullough as the Stage Manager.
“Wilder emphasizes the wonders and beauty of daily life, yet his message is neither sentimental nor romantic, reaching beyond the limited grasp of his characters’ comments,” said the directors. “This is not a goody-goody play. Rural life is not ‘quaint’… the lives may be small in Grover’s Corners, but they are part of a vast pattern.”
There will be 13 performances of Our Town, March 10 (Pay What You Will / Open Rehearsal) at 8 pm, March 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 and April 1 and 2 at 8 pm and March 13, 20, 27 and April 3 at 2 pm. Tickets cost $22 for Hubbard Hall members, $25 for non-members and $15 for students and children. Tickets are available at www.hubbardhall.org or by calling 518-677-2495.
Hubbard Hall is an historic opera house located at 25 E. Main St. in Cambridge, NY. For information, visit www.hubbardhall.org.