Auditions are on Thursday, October 16, 3 p.m.-5 p.m.

About Our Town

The play

This classic play is simple on its surface. A group of actors and a Stage Manager, working on a nearly-empty stage, create a town in New England around 1900, filling it with the townspeople and their day-to-day life. Act One is about a day in the town; Act Two is love and marriage; Act Three is about death.

Although the means and the language are simple, few would disagree with playwright Edward Albee when he said Our Town is "the greatest American play ever written."

Performances

We will have five performances of Our Town:

• Friday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m.

• Saturday, Dec. 6, 7 p.m.

• Sunday, Dec. 7, 3:30 p.m.

• Friday, Dec. 12, 7 p.m.

• Saturday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m.

Two ensembles?

Our Town is being staged, in part, as part of the Introduction to Theatre Arts class. A lot of the rehearsals will take place in class sessions. The ensemble will mostly consist of class members. But students from outside of the class can also audition and rehearse after school, the way we usually do. We will merge the two groups in rehearsals near the end and, magically, it will just all flow together. (Trust and believe.)

This means that if you are not in the class and want to audition, you should. That is what the October 16 auditions are for.

Rehearsals

Rehearsals for the show will start after school on Monday, October 20, usually going 3:00-4:40. Not everyone will have to attend every rehearsal. To help with the merger of cast members, there will be extra rehearsals -- two of them -- between the first and second weekend. More details to come.