Our Town

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I went to see a play last week and guess what it was? Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. It brought me back to the last time I’d seen that play done - when you and many other of my friends at the time were the stars of the show. As the scenes progressed, I couldn’t help but remember the way you guys had acted them, and the differences between this play and yours.

You acted a scene in that play that I’ll never forget. The scene right before your character was about to get married, she spoke with her father and told him that she was afraid and she didn’t want to get married, she wanted to stay with him. Your portrayal of that moment was so strong, it made me want to cry - thinking ahead to when I would have to say goodbye to my family and make that irrevocable change.

I think it was at that play that I decided that I wanted to act. That desire morphed over time, if you’d told me back then that the seeds planted on that night would grow into a position directing plays and enabling the dreams of my kids, I wouldn’t have believed you. But it made me think about growth and life and the things we think we know... until time carves us into different, hopefully better versions of ourselves.

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  1. BekNovember 6, 2017 at 12:46 PM

    I almost died that scene when I tried out for penobscot theater but I changed my mind last minute. That was my favorite scene because it was the one that felt most real to me. But it made my "husband" laugh every time at how horrified I sounded hahahaha memories :)

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