Using the library or the Internet as a resource, locate and watch TWO different live production interpretations of Act Ill of Our Town. Then, compare and contrast how the two interpretations represented the original play. Did either of the
interpretations make any changes to the original material? If so, how did it affect your experience as a viewer? Did you
interpret the characters any differently after watching the live productions? Why or why not?
Your response should be at least 150 words in length.

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.