Instead, it seems to me that Emily is just joining the queue for the train, which will be along any minute now. A better staging would be for Emily to show a bit of sorrow, a bit of loss, and a bit of wonder. And, when she first appears in Act III, Emily is rather blase. I expected a better adherence to Wilder's instructions. And they move about quite vigorously in their chairs. The dead in that scene seems more like they are waiting for a train than waiting for eternity, and more like a coffee klatch than dead. Similarly, the cemetery scene in Act III is staged rather counter to Wilder's instructions. No, there no major changes, but why change at all? It is certainly not needed, and rather presumptuous. The script? I fail to see why the producer, director, &/or actors felt compelled to change the script. Gosh, in the 1899 flashback, her father looks like some dodgy 70 year old, and even Jane Curtin is too old to be a teenager's mother. Both of Emily's parents are quite a bit older than one would expect from a teenager. The lines that could provide him with sympathy or any form of engagement with the audience are delivered very dryly, with little if any humanity. Paul Newman? Yes, he's alright but lacks nearly any sort of personality. The poster (see left) artwork for the play is from the mural “Of the Valley,” designed and painted by Rachel Holderman in collaboration with 2022 Eastern Mennonite University new student orientation and incoming students.Thankfully, Wilder's story of Our Town can even overcome out of kilter staging and unusual directing notes and even miscasting. Townspeople, woman in balcony, et al – The Cast Joe Crowell / Si Crowell- Colton Nussbaum ’27 The show included a lobby display of works by local artists and students as part of director Mark Gornto's effort to make the play a "celebration of our town." It was the first high school play since Alice in Wonderland was shut down right before opening night due to Covid-19 in March of 2020. Eastern Mennonite High School Theater staged Our Town, by Thornton Wilder, Oct.
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