The Skin of Our Teeth

Skin of Our Teeth, The

    Author: Thornton Wilder

    First Performance: 1942, New Haven, Connecticut

    Published: 1942

    Genre: Drama in 3 acts

    Setting: The Antrobus home in Excelsior and the waterfront, Atlantic City, New Jersey, indeterminate period

    Cast: 23m, 11f, 1 dinosaur, 1 mammoth

George Antrobus, a pillar of the suburban community, has invented the wheel and the alphabet. He lives with his wife, daughter, and son, formerly named Cain (he killed his brother), now called Henry. They also have a maid Sabina, an actress who hates this play she has been cast in and has to be persuaded to carry on playing the role of a servant. The ice age threatens to destroy civilization, which is at first welcomed by Antrobus, but eventually he is persuaded to light a fire to save humanity, piling on to it chairs from the...

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