Our Town by Thornton Wilder is a Pulitzer Prize-winning three-act play that explores life, love, and death in the small American town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, between 1901 and 1913. Using a minimalist, bare stage, the narrator (Stage Manager) follows the everyday lives of the Webb and Gibbs families, specifically the romance between Emily Webb and George Gibbs. The play highlights the beauty in ordinary existence, culminating in Emily's death in childbirth and her realization that life should be cherished before it passes.