Our Town captures with simple elegance the routine of the inhabitants of a small New England village, focusing with particular poignancy on the love and courtship of Emily Webb and George Gibbs. In style, the play is a still-life, freezing for eternity a small town that will never change, no matter how many times the production is performed. The audience hears the message: heed the time, it passes swiftly; treasure each moment with each other; store each memory for the time when there are no more moments, when the time for parting comes.