Edward Munch and “Our Town”

This past wed. for our art event we walked over to the art museum to see the special display on Edward Munch. I had already been to the museum but didn’t see this display yet. It was very well done…unfortunately his iconic piece “The Scream” was not there at the time, but they had a lot of his other work. I liked that they had a lot of narrative details posted about his life, his circumstances and some explanations on some of his main themes to his work.

This past Thursday we went to the Looking Glass Theater which is in the old water tower building (the only building to have survived the Chicago fire.) We saw the play “Our Town” which was excellent - a great play that was done very well. “George Gibbs” of the play was actually played by David Schwimmer! (aka “Ross” from the show “Friends”) The theater is actually just a large “black box” kind of room (well, rectangle) where the stage was just on the floor and the audience sat on all four sides. It was quite strange to see such a well known TV character acting on a stage right in front of you…at first I had a hard time keeping his stereotypical “Ross” character out of my head even though I have only seen Friends a few times. I would definitely recommend the play to anyone if they are in Chicago. A play that has been said it is “about nothing yet everything.”