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'''Stage Manager''''': No - saints and poets maybe - they do some.'' }}
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Through the actions of the Stage Manager, the town of Grover's Corners is created for the audience and scenes from its history between the years of 1901 and 1913 play out. There is minimal scenery, and nearly all of the props are pantomimed.
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The second-most common [[School Play]] on television, behind ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''.
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* [[Absent Aliens]]: According to the Stage Manager. "There are the stars -- doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings up there. Just chalk...or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself."
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Simon Stimson.
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: George's parents.
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* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Emily.
* [[Death by Childbirth]]: {{spoiler|Emily}}; [[Justified]] because it really was common back in 1913.
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* [[Mental Time Travel]]: {{spoiler|Emily}}.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: For the Stage Manager, his on-stage guests, and the question-and-answer session in the first act.
* [[The Nothing After Death]]: There is no Heaven. There is no Hell. Every spirit, good and bad, is stuck together, sitting on their tombstone for all eternity. And even though you are given Mental Time Travel powers that let you relive any day of your life, all this does is further drive home to you how much of your life was wasted until you become a cold, emotionless shell of the person you were.
** Except not quite. The dead are waiting "for the eternal part in them to come out clear." This is mentioned a couple times. The obvious interpretation is that the Rapture is on its way and the good folk will someday leave the graveyard to chill with Jesus in heaven.
** Or else it's purgatorial.
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{{Pulitzer Prize for Drama}}
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