YOUNG COMPANY
2012 presenting
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Kelly Daniels
Lyndesfarne's Young Company presents Our Town. Set in the early 1930s, Our Town depicts the lives of average working families living in a small rural town.
Wilder was dissatisfied with the theatre of his time. "I felt that something had gone wrong....I began to feel that the theatre was not only inadequate, it was evasive." Thornton expresses in the preface of his book Thornton Wilder, Collected Plays and Writings on Theatre. Wilder is also well-known for The Skin of Our Teeth (1943), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and Bridge of San Luis Rey. He received the Pulitzer Prize, the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature.
There are a variety of themes covered in this classic story told by the stage manager of this fictitious production including: appreciation of life, isolation from the rest of the world and seizing the day.
Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects is an affiliate member of PACT (Professional Association of Canadian Theatres).
LTP engages under the Independent Theatre Agreement, professional theatre artists who are members of Canadian Actors Equity Association.
Lyndesfarne Theatre Projects is an enthusiastic supporter of a new Niagara Centre for the Arts in downtown St. Catharines!
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