Our Town... but Wilder is a world premiere comedy about a 1980's high school production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town gone horribly wrong.
Our Town... but Wilder is set in a small New England town in the 1980's and tells the story of high school student Bentley Cramer, a sexually confused theater kid. When Bentley becomes the stage manager in his high school's production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, a series of comic mishaps lead him on a journey of self-discovery as he learns about the fragile coexistence of beauty/community and intolerance/divisiveness that often co-exist in small town America.
Our Town... but Wilder was inspired by Thornton Wilder's most famous play, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town, which has never stopped being produced since its premier in 1938. Small-town community plays a titular role in both plays. Wilder's play takes place in a New England town called Grover's Corner, while Krevolin ' sis set in Irrelevant, Connecticut. Both towns serve as a vehicle to capture the essence of life in America.
