I must give a strong recommendation of Frank Rich’s column (“Some Things Don’t Change in Grover’s Corners”) in the Sunday New York Times. He compares the conditions today to the conditions under which Thornton Wilder wrote his famous play “Our Town.” He cites Wilder’s nephew and literary executor as saying that the play is being produced twice as often now as it was in 2005. Rich doesn’t think that’s a coincidence and explains why. My new favorite quote this week comes from a line delivered by the “Stage Manager” in the play (essentially the narrator who explains life in this “normal” little town):
“Wherever you come near the human race, there’s layers and layers of nonsense.”
It’s a shame I didn’t think of using that line. I played the Stage Manager in a 1997 Cherry High School production of “Our Town.”
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