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Act One: Daily Life
The Stage Manager introduces Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, in 1901, walking the audience through the town's geography, its people, and its rhythms before a single dramatic scen…
Act Two: Love and Marriage
Three years have passed. George and Emily are getting married today.
Act Three: Death and Eternity
Nine years later, Emily has died in childbirth. She sits among the other dead in the Grover's Corners cemetery, learning to let go of the living world.
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