Watch Online Free on Watchseries. A production by the Russian Academic Youth Theater based on Thornton Wilder's play of the same name. Life, love, and death are the three components of this performance. The action begins on May 7, 1901, in a small American town. Two families, the Gibbs and the Webb, live next door to each other. Their children attend school, and their entire lives are spent in full view of each other.