Royal Exchange, Manchester Sarah Frankcom stages Thornton Wilder's 1938 drama with tenderness, bleak honesty and a community choirEdward Albee loved Thornton Wilder's 1938 paean to ordinary people, set over 12 years at the start of the 20th century in the sleepy New Hampshire town of Grover's Corners (population 2,642). But he hated that "everyone performs it like it was a Christmas card". He would have no such compl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM on September 22, 2017