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STAGE MANAGER: OUR TOWN I've married over two hundred couples in my day. Do I believe in it? I don't know, M marries N millions of them. The cottage, the go-cart, the Sunday-afternoon drives in the Ford, die first rheumatism, the grandchildren, the second rheumatism, the deathbed, the reading of the will, He no
ACT III During the intermission the audience has seen the STAGE- HANDS arranging the stage. On the right-hand side, a little right of the center, ten or twelve ordinary chairs have been placed in three openly spaced rows facing the audience. These are graves in the cemetery. Toward the end of the intermission the ACTORS enter and take their places. The -front row contains: toward the center of the stage, an empty chair; then MRS. GIBBS; SIMON STIMSON. The second row contains, among others, MRS. SOAMES. The third row has WALLY WEBB. The dead do not turn their heads or their eyes to right or lefty but they sit in a quiet without stiffness. When they speak their tone is matter-of-fact, without sentimentality and, above all, without lugubriousness. The STAGE MANAGER takes his accustomed place and waits for the house lights to go down. STAGE MANAGER: This time nine years have gone by, friends summer, 1913. Gradual changes in Grover's Corners. Horses are getting rarer. Farmers coming into town in Fords. Everybody locks their house doors now at night. Ain't been any burglars in town yet, but everybody's heard about 'em. 79
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A Plat/ inJlireeAct'i THORNTON WILD
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MAI EC 1 7 1976 MAI APR 2 3 1985 AP
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OUR Play in Three Acts THORNTON WIL
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To Alexander Woolkott of Castleton
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The first performance of this play
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ACT I No curtain. No scenery. The a
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sleep kte. 7 ACT ONE This is our do
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ACT ONE JOE CROWELL, JR.: Morning,
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ACT ONE and wagon and carrying an i
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ACT ONE DR. GIBBS: Yes. I declare e
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REBECCA: ACT ONE Mama, George's thr
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MRS. WEBB: ONE the trellises. They
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ACT ONE MRS. GIBBS: Well, he called
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STAGE MANAGER: ACT ONE Thank you, l
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ACT ONE Now die political and socia
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MR. WEBB: Oh, yes, everybody is ACT
Page 39 and 40: MR. WEBB: ACT ONE Golly, I never go
Page 41 and 42: GEORGE: ACT ONE Yeah. But, you see,
Page 43 and 44: EMILY: ACT ONE Oh, Mama, you never
Page 45 and 46: ACT ONE SIMON STIMSON stands direct
Page 47 and 48: ACT ONE EMILY: YouYe welcome. My, i
Page 49 and 50: DK GIBBS: ACT ONE Let's see tomorro
Page 51 and 52: ACT ONE often. . . . My, I hate to
Page 53 and 54: ACT ONE DR. GIBBS: Starting into th
Page 55 and 56: CONSTABLE WARREN: ACT ONE Simon Sti
Page 57 and 58: REBECCA: ACT ONE I never told you a
Page 59 and 60: ACT TWO The First Act was called th
Page 61 and 62: Certainly hope it will. 49 HOWIE NE
Page 63 and 64: MRS. WEBB: ACT TWO Thank you, and t
Page 65 and 66: ACT TWO DR. GIBBS: They'll have a l
Page 67 and 68: ACT TWO Mrs. Webb isn't used to cal
Page 69 and 70: ACT TWO GEORGE: Ye-e-s. I never tho
Page 71 and 72: MR. WEBB; ACT TWO A book came into
Page 73 and 74: ACT TWO two high stools from the wi
Page 75 and 76: ACT TWO youVe got awful conceited a
Page 77 and 78: ACT TWO up. I tell you, you Ve got
Page 79 and 80: GEORGE: ACT TWO Y'know. Emily, when
Page 81 and 82: EMILY: ACT TWO Y-yes, George. GEORG
Page 83 and 84: ancestors. Millions of them. Most o
Page 85 and 86: Why, George . . . you wanted it. 73
Page 87 and 88: ACT TWO In the meantime^ EMILY, hi
Page 89: ACT TWO GEORGE slips away and takes
Page 93 and 94: ACT THREE fifty miles of it themsel
Page 95 and 96: ACT THREE cousin's death, so I thou
Page 97 and 98: ACT THREE it got around. He chose h
Page 99 and 100: ACT THREE Emily was one of the brig
Page 101 and 102: EMILY: ACT THREE Don't you remember
Page 103 and 104: ACT THREE MRS. GIBBS: Yes, of cours
Page 105 and 106: STAGE MANAGER: ACT THREE All right.
Page 107 and 108: ACT THREE JOE CROWELL: Good morning
Page 109 and 110: MR. WEBB: ACT THREE Oh, fine, I gue
Page 111 and 112: ACT THREE MRS. WEBB: Chew that baco
Page 113 and 114: ACT THREE MRS. GIBBS: Were you happ
Page 115: EMILY: Mother Gibbs? ACT THREE MRS.
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