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Article: In restaging Wilder play, Boston Theatre Works goes to `Town'.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- October 31, 2002
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Byline: Robert Nesti
"Our Town" by Thornton Wilder, presented by Boston Theatre Works, at the Chinese Cultural Center, Boston, through Nov. 17.
In Boston Theatre Works' production of "Our Town," the first thing one notices is Robert Pyzocha's set: a cool, cubist abstraction of the New Hampshire town of Grover's Corners. Here, it comprises Plexiglas screens, a cluster of suspended cuckoo clocks, an ancient Victrola making curious noises, a revolving door, a bank of stage lights facing the audience, coats and hats suspended from hooks, and a large, concave mirror on which the audience is reflected.
But this is "Our Town," the 1938 Thornton Wilder ...