OT: Our Town

Dominguez High School is in Compton. No play has been staged there in twenty years. There is no stage and no budget. A decision is made anyway. They will put on Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Two teachers take charge of it. Twenty four students are with them. They adapt the text to their own lives. The rehearsals do not go smoothly. The students doubt themselves. There is little time. The performance is held in the school cafeteria. The date is June 2000. The documentary follows the whole process. The play had been about a small town. The town here turns out to be Compton. The seventy six minute film is an American production Scott Hamilton Kennedy finished in 2002.