Wilder In An Hour

In 1920, when 23-year-old Thornton Wilder set off for Rome to study archaeology, he couldn't know the profound affect the trip would have on him as a playwright. In Rome, Wilder attended the 1921 premiere of Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. The theatricality of the play, its fracturing of time and space, the suspension of reality and dreamy spirit excited Wilder's muse. He would later recreate some of those themes in his greatest masterpieces like The Skin of Our Teeth, …