He didn't want to define that for his audience. He told us, soon after he had written Our Town, that our true lives are lived in the imagination and the memory, and that was one of the principal reasons that he avoided props and sets and scenery.
But soon you give yourself up to it, and you do what Thornton hoped you would do and that was to envision the play, to experience it, through the filter of your own life and your own imagination. "I think I speak for many theatergoers when I say that it takes a few minutes to absorb the impact of the bare stage. On Wilder's radical decision to forgo curtains and scenery for Our Town in favor of a bare stage He put his wonderful imagination to work on inventing some experiences, some episodes, designing a life that that twin brother might have lived had he survived the birth." The last novel, Theophilus North, is Thornton's imagined re-creation of the life of that twin who didn't survive. some guilt because he was the survivor and perhaps he had deprived that brother of blood or tissue or breath or life. He felt a certain incompletion because that brother had not survived. Like many twinless twins, this was a death event which haunted him for most of his life. He had an older brother, Amos, and Thornton's twin brother died at birth. "Thornton was the second live child born into the Wilder family. She joins NPR's Scott Simon to discuss Wilder's life and the universal appeal of Our Town. Now, acclaimed biographer Penelope Niven has written a book, Thornton Wilder: A Life, that tells the story of how the signature play came to be written. In fact, the play is probably being performed by a community, church, high school or professional theater group somewhere this fall. It's been produced for film, radio and television, starring, at times, Paul Newman, Hal Holbrook, Helen Hunt and Frank Sinatra. The play explores life - from childhood to marriage to death - in the fictional town of Grover's Corners, N.H. Wilder was also an acclaimed novelist and essayist, but none of his dramas were as enduring as Our Town, which won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize. Thornton Wilder's Our Town is widely considered to be a classic American play: It puts plain-spoken lyricism on an empty stage with a story as simple as life and death. His titles include the plays Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), as well as the novels Heaven's My Destination (1935) and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927). Thornton Wilder works in a Berlin hotel in 1931.
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