Win a pair of tickets for tonights show!
  • Win a pair of tickets for tonight's show!

Stranger Genius-winning theater company Strawberry Theatre Workshop wants to send some lucky Slog reader on a high octane thrillercoaster ride to the extreme edge of sanity, which is to say, to the humble hamlet of Grover's Corners, NH, setting of one of one of the most durable innovations in the history of the legitimate stage, Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Behind the quaint architecture of the play's milieu rests a devastating metaphysic on the nature of time, death, and ritual. It's one of those works that people tell you is great all your life, so you're never prepared for the power of just how great it is until you see it for yourself.

Our review of STW's inaugural production at the gorgeous new 12th Avenue Arts space—starring 2007 Stranger Genius of acting Amy Thone as the Stage Manager—will appear soon, but YOU (and A DATE) can be ahead of the curve.

All you have to do is send an email to gimme@thestranger.com with the subject line "Nice play. Y'know what I mean?" with a brief explanation of why you and your date deserve to see this show for free, along with your name and phone number in the body of the message.

The deadline for emails is 5pm, and obviously, you know, be in Seattle. We'll notify the winner shortly after 5.

Perhaps while you're trying to think of a good reason, you may enjoy watching the late, great Spalding Gray's description of his experience playing the Stage Manager at Lincoln Center in the '80s, from his monologue Monster in a Box. The Our Town segment runs from 1:14:14 - 1:25:45. The video is embedded after the jump. Good luck!