National Players Present Our Town At Erskine College The National Players, America’s longest-running classical touring company, will stage Thornton Wilder’s Our Town Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Lesesne Auditorium at Erskine College. Admission is $5 (free with Erskine I.D.) and the public is welcome. This performance is part of the Fine Arts Series at Erskine. Convocation credit will be given. Our Town was Wilder's first major play and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize. It was first performed in 1938. Its fictional setting is Grover's Corners, a small town in New Hampshire. Wilder said of the play, “Our Town is not ... a picture of life in a New Hampshire village; or a speculation about the conditions of life after death .... It is an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life .... I have set the village against the largest dimensions of time and place.” The National Players, currently a program of Olney Theatre Center, has toured for 54 consecutive seasons and given approximately 5,875 performances and workshops on plays by such playwrights as Shakespeare, O’Neill, Shaw, Kafka, and Sophocles. Members of the troupe are chosen from among the most talented graduates of top college and university theater programs.