
Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite & conviction Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism & to celebrate the innocent simple & religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual experience with cosmic significance & Our Town" is both an affectionate portrait of American life & 'an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life'. " The Skin of our Teeth" deals with human survival in a 'comic strip' way & " The Matchmaker" is a hilarious farce which urges rebellion against all the constraints that deny a rich full life."