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DIRECTOR'S NOTES

When I set out to direct this season, I did not anticipate taking on one of the most beloved American classics of all time. This project was not my first choice (thanks a lot Aaron Sorkin, but we won’t get into that). However, I decided it was high time a non-high school theatre put up this show in the area, and it was something that could essentially bring the community together after a grueling 3 year pandemic and a divisive election.

Our Town is a show that is 85 years old, and yet, every single element displayed in the show still rings true in today’s changing world. In this show, the citizens of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire address love, marriage, alcoholism, small town politics, and of course, the thin veil between the living and those who have left us.

I could not have asked for a better group of human beings to take on this project with me, and it has truly been a team effort. Each and every person onstage makes an enormous impact on the story. United, we have built this show and quite frankly, we’ve built our own small community together, and we could not be more proud of the show you are about to see.

So, we warmly welcome you to “our town”, and we hope you are as moved by this small glimpse the into human experience as we are.

--Sydnee Corbin

“We all know something is eternal. And it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars…everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings.”