Our Town
by Rude Mechs

Nov. 01 - Nov. 24
Thursdays-Sundays

Called “one of the finest achievements of the current stage…a hauntingly beautiful play” by The New York Times, Our Town is thought to be a microcosm of the life cycle. We feel very privileged to have secured permission to produce this beautiful play and will do our best to be worthy of that honor. 

 

The Gibbs Family is represented by Florinda Bryant, Rommel Sulit, and Eric Ramos. The Webb Family is played by Liz Fisher, Noel Gaulin, Kira Small and Chandler Collins. The Stage Manager will be played by as many Rude Mechs Co-Producing Artistic Directors as we can gather any particular evening. The remaining cast members will be announced at a later time... 

Co-Producing Artistic Director Shawn Sides will direct. The production team also includes design by Aaron Flynn. 

 

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Rude Mechs invites you to join us for our honest-to-god attempt to deliver a straightforward (and mind-blowing) version of this iconic American classic. 

We're pretty sure you already know what it's about.

We're gonna try as hard as we can to do it as Wilder intended.

We'll be using what we learn about our town to make a completely new piece in 2025/26.

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...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. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. – Simon Stimpson, town drunk.

the cast

Florinda Bryant | Chandler Collins | Liz Fisher | Noel Gaulin | Eric Ramos | Kira Small | Rommel Sulit... with Madge Darlington, Thomas Graves, Lana Lesley, Shawn Sides and Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw as Stage Manager

accessibility

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Madge Darlington via boxoffice"at"rudemechs.com. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but Rude Mechs will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

more on the play from the Wilder estate website :

This timeless drama of life in the mythical village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, has become an American classic with universal appeal. Thornton Wilder’s most frequently performed play, Our Town appeared on Broadway in 1938 to wide acclaim, and won the Pulitzer Prize. From the very beginning, Our Town has been produced throughout the world.

Our Town explores the relationship between two young Grover’s Corners neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage. When Emily looses her life in childbirth, the circle of life portrayed in each of the three acts of Our Town–growing up, adulthood, and death–is fully realized.

Wilder offers a couple of chairs on a bare stage as the backdrop for an exploration of the universal human experience. The simple story of a love affair is constantly rediscovered because it asks timeless questions about the meaning of love, life and death. In the final moments of the play, the recently deceased Emily is granted the opportunity to revisit one day in her life, only to discover that she never fully appreciated all she possessed until she lost it. “Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you,” she says as she takes her place among the dead.

 

 

 

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Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
Rude Mechs

November 1 - 24, 2024

Thursdays - Sundays at 8 p.m.

Crashbox

Tickets $15 - $50 plus fees available online HERE