Our Town

Where were we?

100

Fictional town in which Our Town is set (city & state)

Grovers Corners, New Hampshire

200

The tables and chairs represent what two places

Gibbs and Webb houses

300

Setting of the beginning of Act III

Cemetery

400

Emily and George begin their relationship here over ice cream sodas

Mr. Morgan's drugstore

500

This is where Emily's son is spending the day when Emily arrives at the cemetery

Mr. Carter's

Who's Who

100

Protagonist of Our Town (first & last name)

Emily Webb

200

Mysterious, omniscient narrator of Our Town

Stage Manager

300

Loves baseball...and Emily (first & last name)

George Gibbs

400

Drunk choir director and organist (first & last name)

Simon Stimson

500

Loves a good wedding...and gossip

Mrs. Soames

Who said that?

100

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?

Emily

200

We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings.

Stage Manager

300

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

Mrs. Gibbs

400

I think that once you’ve found a person that you’re very fond of . . . I mean a person who’s fond of you, too, and likes you enough to be interested in your character. . . . Well, I think that’s just as important as college is, and even more so.

George

500

That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance. To go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another.

Simon Stimson

Sights & Sounds

100

This hymn is sung at least once in each act

Blessed Be the Tie That Binds

200

As there are few props, characters have to engage in this (acting without words)

Pantomime

300

These are used to represent graves in the cemetery

Chairs

400

These are used to show the second story of the Gibbs and Webb houses

Ladders

500

This sound is one of the first and last sounds, signaling the 5:45 for Boston the first time

Train whistle

Caught in the Act

100

George & Emily's wedding

Act II

200

Choir practice

Act I

300

Emily confronts George about his fault

Act II

400

Emily relives her 12th birthday

Act III

500

Howie delivers milk

Acts I, II, & III