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“But there are moments when the world we take for granted instantaneously changes; when reality is abruptly upended and the unimaginable overwhelms real life. We don’t walk around thinking about that instability, but we know it’s always there: at random, and without warning, a kind of terrible magic can switch on and scramble our lives.”
― Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

“The play keeps toggling our focus between the everyday and the cosmic. Those lives, and everything we see happen in that town, come to feel both infinitely rich and infinitely fragile...One critic would identify 'Our Town', ultimately as a story about "how mankind confronts overwhelming disaster." (pg. 156 & 157)”
― Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

“As the night wore on and information kept raining in sideways, everyone seemed to move around the building so quickly, "with this brilliant, tense look in their eyes." Genie said--"everybody doing a job.”
― Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

“Genie understood that everyone would be trapped together inside this crippled city for the foreseeable future--in the snow, in the dark, with no electricity, in below-freezing temperatures. Under those circumstances, she felt 'mass hysteria would have meant total destruction.' (pg. 79)”
― Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

“Remember us. Recognize us. It's one community's simple insistence that it mattered, made urgent by a suspicion that, ultimately, it might not matter. In other words, the overwhelming disaster everyone in Our Town is confronting is irrelevance: a creeping awareness that no matter how secure and central each of us feels within the stories of our own lives, we are, in reality, just specks of things, at the mercy of larger forces that can blot us out indifferently or by chance.”
― Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

“he paid his teenage son fifty cents to watch Anchorage’s only other television channel and make a list of every commercial, so that KENI might poach its advertisersâ€�”
― Jon Mooallem, This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together