SHELBURNE — How far is Shelburne from Grover’s Corners, the fictitious New Hampshire town in which playwright Thornton Wilder placed his cast of characters?

To celebrate the passing of 250 years in Shelburne, Footlights in the Falls will re-enact Wilder’s masterpiece in the 1895-built Memorial Hall theater.

The play, about life in a small 1904 New England town, will be performed at 7 p.m. on Friday through Saturday, Sept. 14 and Sept. 15, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, Sept. 16. The show will be performed again on Sept. 21 and 22 at 7 p.m.

“Wilder’s words resonate as deeply today as when written,” says the director, Nicole LaRoche of Shelburne. “Together the cast and I have been discovering what they mean to us in our own town. I am so pleased to be able to share our emotional journey with the community we all love.”

About two-thirds of the cast and crew are from Shelburne or Shelburne Falls, says Jackie Walsh of Shelburne, the producer of this play and founder of Footlights.

“I wanted to have lots of people from town in it,” said Walsh. “I am thrilled with how many people from town came to auditions and were cast. It’s a really talented cast.”

About 20 years ago, the West County Players produced a version of “Our Town” in which many local people played characters with jobs or lives similar to their own.

Town residents will see many familiar faces in the cast. They include a barista from Mocha Maya’s coffee house, a local postal clerk, a school bus driver, and others.

Through the lives of two families, the three-act play depicts everyday living, love, marriage and death in a small town. Grover’s Corners, like Shelburne in 1904, has a milkman delivering milk by horse-drawn carriage, a constable walking the streets, a pharmacy with a soda fountain, churches, and homes vibrant with flower gardens.

This is the third production put on by Footlights in the Falls since it’s founding two years ago. Other productions were “Later Life” and “Dixie Swim Club”

“This is its first show with a big cast,” says Walsh. She says there are 20 people in this cast. “I’m so happy we can give all these actors an opportunity to do theater right down the street.”