Our Town Reflection

Reaction of OUR TOWN

The beginning of the play challenged me by the way the play set up with the “stage manager” not presenting what people nowadays would expect. This play is absolutely one of the most impressive innovations. I had never watched a play that is written and played this way in my life before Our Town. To me, a narrator has not been unusual in literature, therefore I expected the “stage manager” to be out of the picture and to leave just a voice for the audience when I read the play. But she was present all the time on stage. And it was even stranger that the narrator, who actually does not belong to the time period of the play nor does she interacts with actors, located herself between in-story and out-sider. However, the function of the “stage manager” became clearer and more comfortable as the play moved on. Serving as a bridge between the story and the audience, the “stage manager” was the key to construct a complete, clearly understandable and meaningful play. On the other hand, the content of the play started a little boring and the bored lasted long.

The second section of play continued the bored by unfolding repetitive life day by day that most of us possess. I almost regret that I came to the show and I believe that most of the audience felt the same way. However, there was one shinning moment when the main actor George said, “well, I think that’s just as important as college is, and even more so”. I laughed, without laughing out. Because I thought his words were silly. Everybody falls in love at one point of their life, but you don’t give up college for love! We all know which one is more important in long run. But I was wrong. I did not realize how wrong I was until Emily died. Not until George loss his beloved one and Emily’s voice could not be heard by anybody in the other world.

“Do any human beings ever realize