Our Town

Our Town by Thornton Wilder is a very well written play.  However, I do not believe that this play is relatable in our current times due to the audience that goes to view plays in our generation.  The themes about the cycle of life and love- romantic and filial - are very important, however, this generation would not appreciate the simplicity of this work.  Nowadays everyone is looking for the next edgiest play, something that will reflect the feeling of the masses about our struggling economy, sexualized commerciality, and the violence in the world today.  This play does not do that.  Wilder wanted to show a real American town and talk about the struggles of everyday life in this town.  But everyday life for the world now consists of drugs, shootings, incest, prostitution, manipulation...the world that Wilder is displaying is not the world that we are familiar with, and that is why some may feel that this play lacks substance.  I did enjoy reading it, though.  I loved the idea of the stage being pretty much bare and the use of a very simplistic set and pantomiming to convey the action and setting.  I feel like this play might be better appreciated in viewing, as I do with most plays, but I do feel that the world we live in today cannot and will not find a place for this piece of theatre.  It has become more of a nostalgic piece and something that can be looke