Town and Country Players presents OUR TOWN

             THIS PLAY WILL ENCOMPASS YOU!

           If you could come back…after you are gone…and relive just one day of your life, what day would you choose?   Do you know why you would make that choice?

            Would it be a special day?  An eventful one? A happy one?  As you watch yourself and others around you in that one day from the past, you might be surprised to discover your memory of the day is very different from what really happened.

            Playwright Thornton Wilder explores this intriguing idea in his wonderfully relatable play, Our Town, opening May 25 at Town and Country Players.

            Described by Edward Albee as “…the greatest American play ever written, the story follows the people of the small town of Grover’s Corners, NH, through three acts: “Daily Life,” Love and Marriage,” Death and Eternity.” 

            Narrated by a wise, “down home” stage manager, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and die.

            Town and Country Players is about to present this show, America’s greatest comedy-drama – the event of its season -- at the theatre on York Rd., Buckingham.  Opening Friday, May 25, it plays for eight emotion-filled performances on three consecutive weekends, ending June 9. 

            Highlighting this life-changing production is Broadway guest actor and artist, Tom Foral, returning to his Doylestown roots and reappearing on the Town and Country stage after 52 years of performing professionally on Broadway, in regional theatre, and films and television.

           Foral plays the wise, matter-of-fact Stage Manager, whose narration ties together the lives of the Gibbs and Webb families and friends.   We leave the theatre fuller and happier than when we entered even as we wipe away the tears of reality recognizing that each of our lives will end one day.

            Because this comedic drama touches the soul, the spirit, and the heart as it deals with real relationships, it has endured the test of time. So powerful is the message, even grown men in audiences everywhere are reduced to tears in the hushed darkness of the theatre as its stories – our stories unfold.

            The cast includes more 20 experienced actors from Doylestown, Warrington, Jamison, Horsham, Buckingham, Richboro, Newtown, and Hamilton, NJ, people you have seen before on the Buckingham stage, as well as some newcomers.

            Performances are May 25, 26, June 1 2, 8, 9 at 8 PM.  Matinees are May 27 and June 3 at 3 PM.  Tickets are $15. All seats are reserved.

            The play, directed by John Zimmerman, past president of T & C, and produced by Nancy Ridgeway, is expected to be a sell-out as was the first show of the 2012 season.  Tickets are available now at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/213513

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