"I would call it comedy of manners with a bite,” Tappan Wilder said of his uncle’s play found in archives at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. “It’s a mystery as to how close he came to finishing it. The third act is not polished. The third act is in his handwriting.”
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The "Nine City" legend has its roots in Thornton Wilder's classic novel, Theophilus North, which was first published in 1973. Lace up your best sneakers. You're going to be padding around nine parallel worlds that are layered within this coastal town of only about 26,000 people.
Read MoreThe Thornton Wilder Family recently received an exciting note from Abigail Sánchez, the dramaturg on a production of Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha which will open in March 2015 at Mexico City's Sergio Magaña Theater, directed by Alejandra Aguilar and Cristian José García.
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After a delay of sixty-seven years, audiences will have an opportunity to witness a "new" adaptation of a theatrical classic by a team of gifted American playwrights who stand tall for Restoration drama, Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig, who both separately and now as one explore ways to stage this classic drama for the 21st century audience.
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Edelstein also wanted his version of the play, which is set in 1901 in the fictitious town of Grover's Corners, N.H., to have relevance to today — and especially to New Haven, which is made up of a myriad mix of classes, cultures, faiths and races. He also cast it with actors who have been associated with the theater over the decades.
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When we performed the play for the population of the prison, the unnamed dead, in their state green uniforms, were wearing, of course, exactly the same thing as the audience.
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