​Thoughts from Bryan Bounds, Producer & Director

I came to Thornton Wilder as a boy in my first play in Temple, Texas, “The Skin of Our Teeth”. I came to Our Town came much later. And I believe its relevance today is huge. In my clumsy attempt to approach the cosmic scale of Mr. Wilder, the stars were “doing their old, old crisscross journeys” four billion years before you and I arrived. We’re here for eighty years if we’re lucky. And then we’re gone. And here we are in this digital age hunched over that block of glass and metal, giving our time and attention away that we’ll never get back. It is my deep wish that Our Townwill shake us awake to look around at the beauty of being alive for this brief time and inspire us to try to connect more deeply with others who are sharing this journey. Surrender to this magnificent play and this brilliant cast as Emily Webb learns that each life, “though it appears to be a repetition among millions – can be felt to be inestimably precious, though the realization of it is present to us briefly and incommunicably. At that moment there are no walls, no chairs, no tables: all is inward. Our true life is in the imagination and in the memory.”