Knox College Theatre presents "Our Town," by Thornton
Wilder, directed by Robert Whitlatch and Chris Storey, at 7:30 p.m.,
Wednesday, October 25, through Saturday, October 28, in Harbach Theatre,
Ford Center for the Fine Arts, on the Knox campus in Galesburg,
Illinois. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for senior citizens and free
for students. Tickets are available at the door or in advance from the
Knox Student Activities Office, at 341-7489.

Winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, "Our Town" is set in the
early 1900s in a fictional town, Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. "The
play pictures small town America," said Whitlatch, Seeley Professor of
Theatre. "We see ordinary daily activities and the natural cycles of
life as they repeat themselves."

"Wilder is very much interested in the sense of time and how things
change, and yet how things don't change," Whitlatch said. "Our Town"
opens with the town preparing a time capsule so future generations will
know, as the narrator says, "this is the way we were... in our growing
up and in our marrying, and in our living and in our dying."

"'Our Town' was noted for how it broke with previous conventions in
American theatre," Whitlatch said, "the lack of scenery, the movement
back and forth through time, the use of a narrator."

Storey, who is co-directing the production, is a 2006 Knox graduate who
received a post-baccalaureate fellowship for the current academic year.

Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg,
Illinois, with students from 46 states and 46 nations. Knox's 'Old Main'
is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the
1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Writer: Meredith Lirman

"Our Town" Cast
Stage Manager - Sarah Bigus
Dr. Gibbs - Nick Perry
Joe/Si Crowell - Warren Grabner
Howie Newsome - David Footle
Mrs. Gibbs - Jess Drew
Mrs. Webb - Mikah Berky
George Gibbs - Matt Allis
Rebecca Gibbs - Meredith Noseworthy
Wally Webb - Ian Schurr
Emily Webb - Eden Newmark
Professor Willard - Kit Ryan
Mr. Webb - Joey Firman
Simon Stimson - Simon Lepkin
Mrs. Soames - Lindsey Morrell
Constable Warren - Shane Donegan
Samantha Craig - Erica Jaffe
Jane Stoddard - Laura Wise
Ensemble - Shane Donegan, Kit Ryan, Jonathan Sulinski

"Our Town" Production
Directors - Robert Whitlatch, Chris Storey
Costume Designer - Jess Drew
Lighting Designer - Danny Fisher-Bruns
Set Design - Martin Helms
Sound Designer - Evan Sawdey
Scenic Artist - Bex Meyerson
Stage Manager - Ryn Flynn
Assistant Stage Managers - Gloria Feliciano, Kathleen Dickinson

Some things never change: Dr. Gibbs (NIck Perry) reprimands his son George (Matt Allis) for neglecting his chores, in a scene from "Our Town," Oct. 25-28.