The PlayFinder™

THE STORY: This play, inspired by Our Town, keeps the original’s celebration of daily human rituals but shifts the story more than seventy years into the future. But how much has truly changed? Parents still get their children ready in the morning, kids still go to school with friends they’ve known all their lives, and everyone still makes plans for their post-graduation futures, including seemingly destined couple George and Emily. But three years after graduation, the bonds that once tied friends together have changed: new priorities no longer fit old narratives as independent hopes, feelings, and sexualities come into focus. George, Emily, and their friends are determined to live their lives on their own terms and to shed versions of themselves they’ve outgrown, whether it be a gender identity or a relationship. Life has only spun forward, and the only way for the residents of Corners Grove to keep up is to embrace the unknown and commit to their own truths.