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let's play steal the bacon
All of the Our Towns

let's play steal the bacon

stealing is allowed in this league. encouraged.

Aug 21, 2024
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All great directors put the good ideas into their back pockets and head to their home theaters to give them a go.

in 2009 a great director sat in the audience of another great director’s Our Town in Manhattan. I guess great director #1 loved it because he went home to Atlanta to do his own production …

with a few marked similarities.

  1. Modern dress. (not early 1900’s)

    or 1990’s dress. I can’t quite tell. Both would be ‘modern’ if this is the teen scene.
  2. A real breakfast cooked onstage in Act 3.

    (no photo can well describe the smell of bacon…thank goodness…my semi-vegetarian kids walk around the playground declaring, ‘we have the meats!’ Arby’s commercials inspire them so.)

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