St Patrick's College Repertory Company (SPARC) has taken to the stage this week with a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, one of the best-loved plays in American drama. It was a huge success on Broadway, when it premiered in 1938, earning Wilder his second Pulitzer, and making him the only American author to win Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction (The Bridge Of San Luis Rey, 1927) and drama (Our Town, 1938).
The play is set in the fictional town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, between 1901 - 1913, and traces the childhood, courtship, and marriage of characters Emily Webb and George Gibbs.
This production of Our Town is directed by our new SPARC doctoral scholar, Seamus Gallagher, and the cast contains many previous graduates of the College's MA in Theatre Studies, as well as a number of our current MA students and staff.
The play is running in the College Auditorium from Monday to Friday of this week, 7 - 11 April, with performances starting at 7.30pm. Tickets cost €12 for adults and €8 for students.
