| OUR TOWN Last Night | |
| Posted by: sergius 07:19 am EST 01/18/25 | |
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| A curiously bland, almost blank production. As it slips from microcosm to the eternal, this great, profound even, play should be shattering. Despite the Stage Manager’s efficient and resolute dispassion, it should shudder with unadulterated if quiet feeling. So it’s strange that in this otherwise proficient rendering of OUR TOWN the play’s requisite unsentimentality is not leavened by an equal depth of feeling; time proceeds but not to crushing effect. The staging is oddly flat and uninvolving. The play’s metatheatrics are foregrounded at the expense of, not in service of, its calm, grave feeling. Wilder was at odds with his nature—for him cultural imperatives didn’t coincide with his heart’s imperatives—and so it’s easy to see OUR TOWN as, among many things, a sort of universalization of the tension between surface and depth experience. Depth always has a surface, but this production of OUR TOWN is stuck on top. | |
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