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Our Town

Review

This thoughtful, delicate production of Our Town deserved better than a first-night audience of fewer than a dozen.

Thornton Wilder's play is an elegiac portrayal of the gentle rhythms of small-town life and death, reflecting the sad realisation that the living are too busy living to realise what they have until it is gone.

A well-disciplined cast conjures the inhabitants of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, with some detail.

Sally Evans is particularly good as Mrs Gibbs, as is Gemma Valler in the role of Emily Webb, catching well the enthusiasm of youth.

Sean Fisher is a good host as the Stage Manager, speaking directly and intimately to the audience as if we were in our own front rooms in our own town.

Set and lighting design are also polished and effective, setting strong accents of colour against the black and white of the costumes.

Perhaps the rhythms of small-town life are a little too evenly paced, and the elegiac tone is sometimes too soft, but this production certainly serves the playwright well.

Jackie Penrose - The News