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Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century de Howard Sherman

Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century

Autor Howard Sherman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 ian 2021
A work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder's Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vintage slice of early 20th Century Americana, rather than being fully appreciated for its complex and eternal themes and its deceptively simple form. This unique and timely book shines a light on the play's continued impact in the 21st century and makes a case for the healing powers of Wilder's text to a world confronting multiple crises. Through extensive interviews with more than 100 artists about their own experience of the play and its impact on them professionally and personally - and including background on the play's early years and its pervasiveness in American culture - Another Day's Begun shows why this particular work remains so important, essential, and beloved.

Every production of Our Town has a story to tell beyond Wilder's own. One year after the tragedy of 9/11, Paul Newman, in his final stage appearance, played the Stage Manager in Our Town on Broadway. Director David Cromer's 2008 Chicago interpretation would play in five more cities, ultimately becoming New York's longest-running Our Town ever. In 2013, incarcerated men at Sing Sing Correctional Facility brought Grover's Corners inside a maximum security prison. After the 2017 arena bombing in Manchester UK, the Royal Exchange Theatre chose Our Town as its offering to the stricken community.

80 years after it was written, more than 110 years after its actions take place, Our Town continues to assert itself as an essential play about how we must embrace and appreciate the value of life itself. Another Day's Begun explains how this American classic has the power to inspire, heal and endure in the modern day, onstage and beyond.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350123434
ISBN-10: 1350123439
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction: The Name of this Book is Another Day's Begun
2. Building Grover's Corners
3. Expanding Grover's Corners
4. The David Cromer productions
5. Westport Country Playhouse and Broadway
6. Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre
7. Montgomery County Emergency Services
8. Theatre Baton Rouge and Louisiana State University
9. Lookingglass Theatre
10. Intermission: The Church of Grover's Corners
11. Theatrical Outfit
12. Miami New Drama
13. Oregon Shakespeare Festival
14. Deaf West and Pasadena Playhouse
15. Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park
16. Sing Sing Correctional Facility
17. Epilogue: 11 O'Clock in Grover's Corners
i. Notes and Sources
ii. Thanks and acknowledgments

Recenzii

An important book consisting of oral histories of 12 productions of the play that have opened since 2012 and prefaced by a richly detailed 34-page overview of the original Broadway production of the play's subsequent history up to the turn of this century.
The early chapters are full of fascinating 'Our Town' factoids, but the heart of 'Another Day's Begun' is the more than a dozen chapters outlining major productions of 'Our Town,' which Sherman presents as oral histories.
With the country splintered, its institutions shaken, a book documenting a classic American play affirming shared life experiences and bedrock values seems especially timely.
Thornton Wilder's classic play Our Town is so familiar - and so often performed in a sanitized, sentimental style in high schools around the country - that it's easy to forget how bold this work originally proved. Author Howard Sherman tells the tale anew with Another Day's Begun: He brings the story up to date with examinations of the many bold and exciting productions that have appeared in the past 20 years.
If you love the play, you'll love the book. If you have believe it or not, never really even seen a production of Our Town, you'll love the book, because this book, as much as the play, is the story about people, and how we fit each other into our lives and what we mean to each other. One of the things you're struck by as you read about production after production, is that every production becomes its own small town, and you are inevitably touched by the lives that are uplifted. It's a great book.
For those who teach American drama, Wilder, or Our Town, the book has pullable sections that one can assign to add context and perspective to a play that many students might see as antiquated, or unrelatable. Another Day's Begun provides the perfect dramaturgical companion for any director, scholar, or producer about to visit Grover's Corners.
An engaging and deeply researched book for theater lovers and for anyone who has ever spent time with this Thornton Wilder masterpiece. The oral histories enliven the book with candid, often contrarian, views by the theatrical participants. The variety of stagings and performers in this century demonstrates Sherman's premise that Our Town is not a play of nostalgia and sentimentality but rather one that reminds us to savor every glorious moment of our ordinary lives. That's a tough but important message during this endless pandemic.
[Our Town] has gained a reputation for fusty sentimentality, a misperception that Howard Sherman's new oral history, "Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town' in the 21st Century". debunks through discussion of a dozen productions.
[A] new history of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town."
A compendium of newly created oral histories about some key productions from the past two decades.The result is not just an intimate look at the theatermaking process, but an enlightening examination of a play that isn't what it appears to be.
Another Day's Begun possesses a theatricality of its own, with an "intermission" at its mid-point, and a peppering of production stills throughout. But it is with its collection of interviews, or "Oral Histories", that Sherman's book comes into its own, offering a novel lens through which to view the play, both in performance and as a cultural phenomenon. To those who want to get to grips with the play, Another Day's Begun can be highly recommended.
A captivating history of Our Town. In this time of dark stages and unemployed thespians, Sherman's reflections will enchant all theater buffs.
Our Town reminds us of what unites, rather than divides, humanity. Howard Sherman has provided a valuable current portrait of the play's ever timely and timeless testimony to our better selves.
I love this book! Howard Sherman delivers a fresh, witty, engaging, exhaustively researched, up to the minute backstage tour into one of America's very greatest and perhaps most underestimated plays. An excellent must-have book to own and cherish.
What an immense pleasure to read Another Day Begun: Thornton Wilder's Our Town in the 21st Century. Howard Sherman has crafted a comprehensive overview of Our Town that traces the play's journey from inception to reception, its acceptance and then the interrogations that surround such success. Sherman places Thornton Wilder firmly where he belongs, in the pantheon of the most significant American playwrights. And he makes a compelling case for how the play speaks directly to the complexities our current century
To explore the pages of this book is to rediscover the joy and wonder of theatre itself. Our Town is arguably the greatest American play, and Howard Sherman helps us understand how it retains that power for new generations, new visions of America, and communities around the globe. The stories he tells, like Wilder's play itself, make their gentle and mysterious way into our hearts, until we too are transformed by a bigger and more generous vision of our world.
If Thornton Wilder ever wondered: "What difference will it make if I write this play?", Howard Sherman's Another Day's Begun answers him. Sherman's book is a remarkable case study of Our Town in multiple contexts. We are given testimony from all involved in how one play makes an enormous difference in appreciating our time on earth and realizing our connection to each other. A must-read for all who love theatre, and an eloquent gift for all of us who wonder what difference it makes to write during our allotment of days
Howard Sherman has crafted an entertaining and enlightening appreciation of what is arguably the greatest American play . Another Day's Begun is not only a colorful companion to Our Town, but a worthy addition to the study of American theater.
The core of Another Day's Begun lies in a series of intelligent discussions between those involved in every kind of production from schools to Broadway and the UK stage. [The book] builds a wealth of information and interest as readers discover the ways in which it has touched so many diverse lives.
In his fascinating new book, Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder's Our Town in the 21st Century, author Howard Sherman analyzes the play's meaning and explores its continuing impact on audiences across the globe.
[A]n astonishing, nimble demonstration of how research can be deployed in the field through a multiplicity of dramaturgical filters and prisms.