`Our Town` updated for MTV

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Our Town - Revamped

In to make a Thornton Wilder 's play Our Town more accessible to a mainstream MTV viewing audience a great many elements of the play must be changed . The play should not be a time period piece but rather a more up-to-date scene would enhance the play 's likeability . Also , the dialect of Wilder 's play would have to be brought up to par with the vernacular of today that is not to say that street jive should be

br incorporated into the dialogue but some of the language would have to be compromised such as changing home to crib or other important measures in for a more accessible play to be performed and understood , for instance Wilder writes , So - people a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the twentieth century . - This is the way we were : in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying (Wilder Our Town ) instead of saying it like this the quote could be , When people look back at this time and place they will see us and how we truly were how growin ' up and marryin ' was just the same , no matter the `when ' no matter the `where , the `how ' stays solid . Or even when Mrs . Gibbs is talking with Emily before she and George 's wedding , [P]eople are meant to go through life two by two 'Tain 't natural to be lonesome (Wilder Our Town , she could say , It ain 't no normal thing to be jus ' one person in this whole world people needs each other jus ' like in Noah 's Ark it 's the same now as then

The landscape of the play , or its setting of the small town of Grover 's Corners would also have to be changed . The most important aspect of a performance or play is that the audience can relate to it on a certain level . The allegory of the play within the play should remain the same but the element of the play within the play taking place at Grover 's Corners should be changed . This change could be Grover high school , an inner-city school or town so that more physical elements of familiarity can be encapsulated into the play 's revamping

The play should still maintain the narration given by the stage manager , it provides a vital role for the accessibility of the play and the understanding of the audience to the play . If the actions , and thoughts of the main characters are played out then they are better understood : keep in mind the famous movie Ferris Beuhler 's Day Off in which the entirety of the movie is narrated by the main protagonist Ferris . This made the movie more endearing to the audience thus , the stage manager 's /narrator 's role becomes even more important for the revamping...