As the form of such a drama gives new possibilities to potray a story, Our Town is far more than just its plot. The play is presented in a (at that time) new way: It is a narrative drama. The construction of Our Town is totally different from what we call “fourth-wall stage”. So why did Our Town win the Pulitzer-Prize? Why was it called the American drama by some critics and why did it become so popular in postwar Germany ?īecause it is not presented in the manner the nineteenth century. The whole thing is ordinary and unimportant”, they would probably say – and they would be right. There is nothing special about George and Emily. “The play has no dramatic conflict, there is no significance within the plot. Of course this is a speculative question, but do you think people would enjoy that play? It would be rather boring, I think. Emily dies and George mourns for his wife while she is talking to other deaths. They see how George and Emily fall in love with one another in Morgan’s drugstore and then they marry. Gibbs chatting with Howie Newsome, the Webbs having breakfast. There are two stoves inside the buildings, tables with tableclothes, some kitchen utensils, a hall-stand and so on. Threre is a stage in front of them decorated with the façade of two houses, two fences, some flowers, a painted butternut tree. Can you imagine Our Town as a play in the manner of the nineteenth century? Imagine an educated, interested audience watching the story of George Gibbs and Emily Webb.
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