Our Town at Welsh National Theatre

“The new Welsh National Theatre springs into life with a joyous, tender, Welsh-inflected staging of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 classic.”

The cast of Our Town at Welsh National Theater with Michael Sheen as the Stage Manager. Photo by Helen Murray.

Thornton Wilder conceived of Our Town as a cosmic and universal play about everyone in communities everywhere. He wrote significant scenes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and located the Latitude and Longitude lines in deep water off the American coast.  Wilder was an American writer, but he had his eyes on the world. It is the universality of this play that prompted Welsh National Theatre to choose Our Town as the first production of their inaugural season. It’s their town too.

In Sarah Hemming’s review of the Welsh National Theater production in The Financial Times, she writes:

“The new Welsh National Theatre springs into life with a joyous, tender, Welsh-inflected staging of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 classic: a play that urges you to cherish the fleeting moments of everyday life and foregrounds the role of art in framing that message.

Propelled to the stage by the galvanising energy of artistic director Michael Sheen and directed by Francesca Goodridge, this vibrant ensemble production of Our Town is a celebration not just of communality but of the way theatre can create a transient community of its own. This is a cracking statement of intent for a new national theatre.”

Read the full review HERE.