Southwestern Oklahoma State University's theatre season continues later this month with Thornton Wilder's American classic, Our Town . Winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Our Town depicts the life in a New Hampshire village. The play begins in 1901 in Grover's Corners where the Gibbses and Webbs are neighbors. During their childhood, George Gibbs and Emily Webb are playmates and their lives are inextricably woven together.
Friendship develops into romantic interest in one another.
One day George proposes to Emily in the drug store over an ice cream soda. Their happiness is short-lived when Emily dies and is buried on a rainy, dreary day. According to Crew, one of the most important scenes in modern theatre, the peace and quiet of death, which can never be understood by the living, is portrayed. Students Donisha Childs of Oklahoma City and Philip Seymour of Enid are costume and sound designers, respectively.