Act I
Act one is an amalgam of early 20th century New Jersey and the dawn of the Ice Age. The father is inventing things such as the lever, the wheel, the alphabet, and multiplication tables. The family (the Antrobuses) and the entire north-eastern U.S. face extinction by a wall of ice moving southward from Canada. The story is introduced by a narrator and further expanded by the family maid, Sabina. There are unsettling parallels between the members of the Antrobus family and various characters from the Bible. In addition, time is compressed and scrambled to such an extent that the refugees who arrive at the Antrobus house seeking food and fire include the Old Testament judge Moses, the ancient Greek poet Homer, and women who are identified as Muses.
Act II
Act II takes place on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the Antrobuses are present for George's swearing-in as president of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Mammals, Subdivision Humans. Sabina is present, also, in the guise of a scheming beauty queen, who tries to steal George's affection from his wife and family. Although the conventioneers are rowdy and partying furiously, there is an undercurrent of foreboding, since the weather signals change from summery sunshine to hurricane to deluge. (A fortune teller had previously attempted to warn them about this but had been ignored). Gladys and George each attempt their individual rebellions, and are brought back into line by the family. The act ends with the family members reconciled and, paralleling the Bibilical story of Noah's Ark, directing pairs of animals to safety on a large boat where they survive the storm and/or the end of the world.
Act III
The final act takes place in the ruins of the Antrobuses' former home. A devastating war has occurred; Maggie and Gladys have survived by hiding in a cellar. When they come out of the cellar we see that Gladys has a baby. Sabina joins them, "dressed as a Napoleonic camp-follower". George has been away at the front lines leading an army. Henry also fought, on the opposite side, and returns as a general. The family members discuss the ability of the human race to rebuild and continue after continually destroying itself. The question is raised, 'is there any accomplishment or attribute of the human race of enough value that its civilization should be rebuilt'?
The stage manager interrupts the play-within-the-play to explain that several members of their company can't do their parts because they're sick (possibly with food poisoning: the actress playing Sabina claims she saw blue mold on the lemon meringue pie at dinner). The stage manager drafts a janitor, a dresser, and other non-actors to fill their parts, which involve quoting philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle to mark the passing of time within the play.
The alternate history action ends where it began, with Sabina dusting the living room and worrying about George's arrival from the office. Her final act is to address the audience and turn over the responsibility of continuing the action, or life, to them.

《生活在此处》改编自桑顿·怀尔德名作《我们的小镇》，灵感源于导演德米特里·克雷莫夫（Dmitry Krymov）在年轻时观看该剧巡演时的经历，他将个人在苏俄时代的回忆叠加于怀尔德笔下的格罗佛斯角小镇生活中，真实与虚幻，回忆与联想，戏中戏的嵌套让平淡的生活流平添玄妙，最终又引导观众意识到自己身处的现实。2022年，该剧获得包括最佳剧目和最佳导演在内的俄罗斯戏剧最高奖金面具奖五项提名，领衔主演亚历山大·费克利斯托夫（Alexander Feklistov）和玛丽亚·斯莫尔尼科娃（Maria Smolnikova）贡献了令人难忘的演绎。
作为与尤金·奥尼尔、田纳西·威廉斯等齐名的美国现代戏剧先驱，三度普利策奖获得者桑顿·怀尔德亦因其对日常生活琐事的关注、对人类纯真本性的讴歌而被视为契诃夫精神在美洲大陆的遥远回响。怀尔德原作中死而复生、重返人间的艾米丽那句倍感痛彻的诘问：“有没有人在活着的时候，意识到生命的意义——每一分，每一秒？”点出了剧作的内核，而德米特里·克雷莫夫则干脆在他莫斯科剧院当代戏剧学院首演的版本中召唤了契诃夫的灵魂，以人们对其“生活在别处”的主人公的记忆，反衬生存的意义就在此地此刻。

《我们的小镇》是怀尔德1938年创作的经典话剧，以两个家庭为主线，叙述了一群普通而快乐的人，生活在一个恬静而平凡的小镇，平平凡凡地经历着出生、成长、婚育和死亡。当因难产离世的女主角艾米莉的灵魂回到曾经记录着她的笑声的地方，她才猛然发现，那些平凡和琐碎，那些平淡和简单，是那样的美好和珍贵。

Новый проект Дмитрия Крымова по мотивам одной из самых известных пьес Торнтона Уайлдера «Наш городок» (она принесла ему Пулитцеровскую премию).

Для Дмитрия Крымова текст Уайлдера – отправная точка для полета фантазии и погружения в собственное прошлое. Взаимоотношение человека с прошлым – тема, которая волнует художника в последние годы. На пьесу американского драматурга накладываются личные воспоминания Крымова, его биография, события из жизни его семьи. Артисты «Школы современной пьесы» играют реальных людей – Анатолия Эфроса, Наталью Крымову, завлита театра на Бронной Нонну Скегину, самого Дмитрия Крымова.

1969 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Gene Kelly

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.

Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie Oakley, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, Charlotte’s admiration turns into suspicion.