Arts & Entertainment

River Dell HS Drama Club Presents 'Our Town' Nov. 21-22

Performances are Friday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m.

River Dell High School’s drama club proudly presents “Our Town.”

“Our Town” revolves around the life of two ordinary families in the early twentieth century in the small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire.

Playwright Thornton Wilder ponders the human existence throughout the play as he delves into the themes of daily life, love and marriage, death and dying. With the aid of the Narrator, the audience is confronted with the transience of life. While a single human life comprises only one finite revolution from birth to death, the world continues on, human beings continue to exist as just one part of the universe.

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This production uses a bare stage and minimal props allowing the audience to fully focus on the actors. For the very first time, projection imaging will be incorporated. This also plays into the idea of the passage of time onstage. For although we are able to use technology, we are still human beings and the human condition remains the same. As Wilder said, “Our claim, our hope, our despair are in the mind – not in things, not in scenery.’”

Performance dates are Friday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. All shows at River Dell High School, 55 Pyle Street, Oradell, NJ.

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Tickets will be sold at the door. General Admission $10/Students $5

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