Thornton Wilder

Our Town

Photo: Uroš Hočevar

Celje People’s Theatre

Première: 21 February 2014, Celje People’s Theatre
Running time 2 hours and 10 minutes. One interval.

Translator Tina Mahkota
Director Matjaž Zupančič
Dramaturg Tatjana Doma
Stage designer Alen Ožbolt
Costume designer Bjanka Adžić Ursulov
Répétiteur Simon Dvoršak
Composer and music arranger Jani Kovačič
Language consultant Jože Volk
Movement consultant Branko Završan
Lighting designer Andrej Hajdinjak
Sign language instructor Gabriela Jurkošek

Cast
Stage manager Branko Završan
Dr. Gibbs Renato Jenček
Joe Cromwell Aljoša Koltak
Howie Newsome David Čeh
Mrs. Gibbs Lučka Počkaj
Mrs. Webb Jagoda
George Gibbs Blaž Setnikar
Emily Webb Liza Marija Grašič
Professor Willard Igor Žužek
Mr. Webb Bojan Umek
Woman Tanja Potočnik
Belligerent Man Igor Sancin
Lady, One of the Dead Barbara Medvešček
Simon Stimson Mario Šelih
Mrs. Soames Manca Ogorevc
Constable Warren Tarek Rashid
Wedding Guests, The Dead Zvone Agrež, Rastko Krošl, Damjan M. Trbovc, Tanja Potočnik, Barbara Medvešček
Sam Craig Vojko Belšak
Joe Stoddard Andrej Murenc

The play Our Town is an American classic and one of the most frequently staged American plays of the twentieth century both in professional and amateur theatres. It was repeatedly adapted for radio, television, film and opera.
The action takes place in the imaginary American town of Grover’s Corners between 1901 and 1913 and it depicts the life of ordinary citizens with their everyday life stories and their deaths. In the apparent simplicity of their lives, Wilder bestows the heroes of Our Town with the essential questions of our existence – How do we live? How do we survive? What is love? Is love enough for an individual to acquiesce and accept the burden of life? When a man dies, what is left?
A simple love story discloses questions on the importance of family, the significance and sense of love, life and death.