Our Town

Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town has long been America’s most performed play and Queensland Theatre have brought it to brilliant life at Bille Brown Theatre for the start of their 2021 season.

Directed by Lee Lewis, Queensland Theatre's Artistic Director, Our Town features a cast of 14, the largest ever to grace the Bille Brown Theatre stage. The 12 roles are being performed by a stellar line-up that includes of some of the best actors in the country:  Jimi Bani, Colin Smith, Libby Munro, Hugh Parker, Roxanne McDonald, Andrew Buchanan and Anthony Standish.

With a story so simple and a heart so warm, this classic celebrates all that is precious in life....

Life in a small town. Babies are born. Children go to school, and play and dream. People grow up, fall in love, get married, hold down a job, and grow old. The same surnames last down through the years, but the faces change. There are inevitable tragedies and triumphant joys.

As we come to know the people in this town, we see how the threads of their everyday lives are gently woven into the rich and complex, funny and heartbreaking fabric that is community. And for all its simplicity, this play reveals a great truth at its heart: deep meaning and startling value are in every moment of existence. You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

Lewis said Thornton Wilder wrote this play in the run-up to World War II in the 1930s. 

“I think Our Town is a play written for difficult times, to remind us about what matters," she said. It reminds us to look to the future with hope, to see the beauty in the everyday world and to cherish the people we love.

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