Our Town: A doctor, a tradie and a funeral director walk into a Pulitzer-winning play

Perth’s major theatre company is letting a bunch of locals loose on Thornton Wilder. ‘I think all of us secretly believe we’re great actors,’ says one. ‘Whether that’s true or not, we’ll see’

“Imagine you’re a Pez dispenser.”

A circle of doctors, teachers, undertakers and Perth citizens who’ve never trod the boards before are being led in warm-up exercises at the downstairs rehearsal room of Western Australia’s State Theatre Centre in bustling Northbridge.

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