Showing Our Town by Thornton Wilder

The paperback. Pub Date: 2000 08 Pages: 288 Publisher: Penguin Classics Finding the theater of the 1920s lacking in bite and Hide details for conviction. Thornton Wilder set out to ing back realism and to the the Innocent simple and RELIGIOUS celeate. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance and Our Town is both an affectionate portrait of American life and 'an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life'. The Skin of our Teeth deals with human survival in a 'comic strip' way. and The Matchmaker is a hilarious farce which urges rebellion against all the constraints that deny a rich. full life.