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Our town

a play in three acts

by Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder contemplates ordinary life events (birth, family life, marriage, and death), mostly through one character, a young woman, Emily Webb, who leads an unexamined life until she encounters death.

DeathScriptsDramaYoung womenCity and town lifeAmerican drama (dramatic works by one author)