Our Town

Our Town by Thornton Wilder. Immensely popular play about life in a small town, one of the most frequently staged American plays. It opened on January 22, 1938 at the McCarter Theater, Princeton, New Jersey, produced and directed by Jed Harris. The play moved to New York, where it opened at the Henry Miller Theater on February 4, 1938.

Produced in South Africa in 1945. Directed by Taubie Kushlick, with **, Enid Grünewald,

Presented by the UCT Speech-Training Department, produced by Joyce Burch in the Little Theatre, March 1947. The cast: Michael Watermeyer, Zea Lurie, Ashné Kretzmar, Joyce Pienaar.

Sources

South African Opinion, 4(2):19, 1947.

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