Discuss the ways the students are able to relate to the play, the concerns they have, and the conflicts the play brings up for them. Underneath the historical, cultural milieu of OUR TOWN are deeper values about family, faith, love, marriage, and death that speak to all humans. But OUR TOWN is a piece of theatre, a work of art.
The play OUR TOWN is set in a fictional small New England town in the early years of the twentieth century, (1899-1911). The play depicts a cultural framework unique to that time and location. In the documentary OT: OUR TOWN, the play is produced by Dominguez High School in Compton, California, in 2002. Compton is […]