Characters
This young woman marries right after high school, has one child, and dies in childbirth.
Who is Emily Webb?
This is the name of the town in Our Town.
What is Grover's Corners?
Dr. Gibbs was returning from doing this at the beginning of Act I.
What is delivering twins?
This word means to shiver convulsively.
What is shudder?
All of the characters stop to stare at the beauty of this in Act I.
What is the moon?
This most important character of the play has very little importance in a the play’s action, comments on the play/characters, and dispenses folksy wisdom and common sense.
Who is the Stage Manager?
The play Our Town is set in this New England state.
What is New Hampshire?
This activity takes up a lot of George Gibbs’ time, and people grow frustrated with his steadfast commitment to it rather than to his family and friends.
What is baseball?
This is an apparatus which controls temperature conditions in order to grow living organisms artificially.
What is an incubator?
Each home (for the Gibbs and Webb family) is represented by these three objects.
What are a table, chairs, and trellises?
This character appears in every morning scene, delivering the milk to the citizens of the town.
Who is Howie Newsome?
This is the setting for Act III of Our Town.
What is the cemetery/graveyard?
George Gibbs almost breaks this marital tradition on his wedding day.
What is seeing the bride before the ceremony?
This is a yarn-dyed fabric woven in stripes, checks, or plaids.
What is gingham?
Despite being set during the early 1900s and 1910s, Our Town was first produced on stage in this year.
What is 1938?
This character is the focus of much of the gossip that occurs in the town;his drinking habits have everyone
concerned for his well-being.
Who is Simon Stimson?
This is the place where Emily and George “tie the knot.”
What is the Congregational Church?
The second-hand furniture salesman offers Mrs. Gibbs this amount of money for Grandmother Wentworth’s highboy.
What is $350?
This highly fragrant purple flower native to Peru turns its flowers blossoms toward the sun.
What is heliotrope?
These are the names of the two paperboys (who happen to be brothers) in Our Town.
Who are Joe and Si Crowell?
This character’s dream is to visit a country where they don’t speak English, like France.
Who is Mrs. Julia Gibbs?
This place is the setting for George and Emily’s conversation about going steady.
What is Morgan's Drugstore?
Emily chooses to go back to this day from her childhood.
What is her 12th birthday?
Wilder uses this word to describe the setting of Act III. Synonyms include mournful, dismal, and gloomy.
What is lugubrious?
The birth at the beginning of the play takes place in this part of town.
What is Polish Town?