About the work
Three-act play by Thornton Wilder, premiered in 1938 in Princeton and on Broadway, winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Performed on an almost bare stage with a Stage Manager guiding the audience.
Plot
Life in the fictional small town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, between 1901 and 1913: the everyday life, love and marriage of Emily Webb and George Gibbs, and finally death, from which Emily recognises the value of ordinary days.