The Epicentre Theatre’s most recent production was of Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’.

Thornton Wilder’s play ‘Our Town’ depicts New Hampshire village life between 1901 and 1913 through the stories of two regular, neighbouring families, the Gibbs and Webbs families. The two families youngsters, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, grow up together as children, they then fall in love, and marry. Nine years on Emily dies and goes into the village cemetary where the former inhabitants of Grover’s Corner welcome her to the peace that could never be understood by the living.

I really enjoyed the way director Dino Dimitriades did this play. His production captured its essence. At its heart it’s about home, and regular values. What Dimitriades most of all created was s sense of this home-ness on stage. There was a delightfully informal feel to this production; the cast were milling around on stage betwen intervals. there were two intervals, there was a very relaxed, homely atmosphere withe the cast making themselves coffee. talking amongt themselves…

Above all, this was a fine, very folksy production, as it should be, because this is a very folksy play! A joy.