Our Town

While reading the first Act of Our Town, there was a few things that I couldn't help but notice. For one, the fact that the director was stopping the play right in the middle to tell characters to get off stage or for the audience to ask questions opened my eyes. The director had total control and I thought it was a little weird how it was written that way with so many interruptions. Another thing that I focused on was the title. Since it is called "Our Town" and not Grovers Corners it made it feel like a more general town. We see from the start that there are not really any props so it is up to our imaginations. The characters seem to be generalized so we can kind of picture this town like any other. One relationship that caught my attention was the mother - daughter relationship. When they're at the table and the daughter asks her mother if she is pretty she doesn't exactly have anything to say or when she does it is to general. I feel like many mothers (like my own) go above and beyond to comfort their daughter and tell her yes she is beautiful and someone will want her, but she doesn't really do that.