Our Town

Cora's theater department presented the classic American play "Our Town" last weekend, and Cora played the Stage Manager of this play-within-a-play. Technically, she and Mackenzie shared the role, splitting the lines and talking to each other and the audience on stage. It was a great pairing, reminding us of how she and Ben would finish each other's thoughts during Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Here, Cora and Mackenzie jumped into the role of the milkman's horse, one of several times Cora's stage manager slid into other roles as the story progressed. 

Here, you can see some of the set that Stace, Cora and Jarod worked so hard on. It was designed to be a very simple set, giving the impression of the homes of the Gibbs and Webb families in Grover's Corners, N.H., around the turn of the 20th Century.

Here, Cora takes her place during church choir practice.

Here, she's animatedly describing how the majority of people get married, and suddenly find themselves 50 years down the line, on the other side of youth. This was in the context of the play's main characters Emily and George falling in love and getting married.

Here, Cora's playing the drug store and soda shop proprietor, Mr. Morgan, and getting George and Emily ice cream sodas. 

The closing scene in this nostalgic, thoughtful play. Many were wiping away tears as Emily dies and is allowed to relive part of a day, and remarks on how people don't appreciate life while they are living it.

It was sweet to have Cora almost bookend her high school straight-play career with a role so reminiscent of Rosencrantz.