2010 Main Stage

Creative Team

by Thornton Wilder

Director Iain Sinclair

Set Designer Pip Runciman

Costume Designer Jennifer Irwin
Composer & Sound Designer Paul Charlier


With Nicholas Bakopoulos-Cooke, Ashleigh Cummings, Maeve Dermody, Darren Gilshenan, Robin Goldsworthy, Anita Hegh, Russell Kiefel, Michael Kilbane, Chris Pitman, Susan Prior, Toni Scanlan, Christopher Stollery, Josh Quong Tart, Steve Toulmin, Frank Whitten

ACCESS PERFORMANCES

Captioned Performances
Friday 1 October 2010, 8.00pm
Wednesday 6 October 2010, 1.00pm
The captions screens are visible from selected seats in the Drama Theatre. When booking seats for captioned performances, please contact the box office and ensure that you request ‘Caption Seats’ which is suitable for best viewing of the caption screens.
Bookings via email to:

boxoffice@sydneytheatre.com.au

 


Audio Described Performance

Saturday 9 October 2010, 2.00pm
Workshop at 11.30am
Patrons for the audio description need to be seated 20 mins prior to the performance.

 
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Sydney Theatre Company presents

Our Town

by Thornton Wilder

 

It’s 1901. Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Welcome to Our Town.

A small American town like any other; simple, sleepy and cheerful. People here are like people anywhere else: they are born, they fall in love, they die. Ordinary people leading ordinary lives. Or so we might believe, until the Stage Manager – our guide for the evening – takes us on a tour of the town and we begin to glimpse how extraordinary even the most ordinary of lives can be.

Sliding between the past, the present and the future, we follow George and Emily – one of the most winsome couples in theatrical history – as they grow up, fall in love, marry and start their own family.

Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play from 1938 makes an affecting philosophical case for relishing life in the here and now. Heart-warming and humorous, Our Town celebrates the everyday and is a powerful call to appreciate life while we are in it.

 

www.thorntonwilder.com

 

 

2 Hours 40 Minutes, Including 2 Intervals

Reviews

“*****Our Town is a triumph for the STC: as a production as well as a bold choice of programming. It's the kind of show that just might make you see the world differently. When it comes to the theatre, you can't say fairer than that.” Time Out Sydney

 

"Director Iain Sinclair has done a wondrous job with the play....Our Town is one to savour slowly and often" - Stage Noise

 

“Funny, sweet, wry and poignant, Our Town is all these things and more” – Concrete Playground

 

“Thornton Wilder’s classic play about lost time seems to come from another age now, but lain Sinclair’s beautifully realised production reveals how deeply embedded its values are in our cultural memory” – The Australian


Cate & Andrew say...

Andrew: This is a play that most people have heard of but few have seen. It’s a moving interrogation of the American Dream and the shadow of mortality.

Cate: And it’s one of our favourites.

Dates & Prices

Pre-season Briefing
Monday 30 August 6.15pm
Held at The Wharf

 

Night with the Actors
Tuesday 12 October 6.30pm
Post-show discussion with the cast and creative team

 

Previews
14-17 September  8pm

 

Season

18 September - 30 October