The binaries of grief

On a recent long drive home after seeing Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” the experience percolated in my mind and heart. In presenting an intimate portrait of ordinary folk living unremarkable lives, this play invites us to appreciate life’s strange mixture of levity and sadness, irony and breathtaking, ephemeral beauty. In the promotions for the play’s Boston run, I had seen the actor who played Emily Webb – the character at the...