THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

February 23 - March 5, 2023

Written by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Toby Vera Bercovici

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 5, 2023, Outcalt Theatre
Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
ASL supported performance: Thursday, March 2, 2023

TICKET DISCOUNT CODES BELOW 

$5-$15
Phone: 216-241-6000
Web: https://www.playhousesquare.org/multicategory/category/cleveland-state-university 

Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5,000 years), who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first husband and wife, Adam and Eve; the two Antrobus children, Gladys (perfect in every way, of course) and Henry (who likes to throw rocks and was formerly known as Cain); and their garrulous maid, Sabina (the eternal seductress), who takes it upon herself to break out of character and interrupt the course of the drama at every opportunity ("I don't understand a word of this play!"). Whether he is inventing the alphabet or merely saving the world from apocalypse, George and his redoubtable family somehow manage to survive – by the skin of their teeth.

Completed by the author less than a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) broke from established theatrical conventions and walked off with the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Combining farce, burlesque, satire, and elements of the comic strip, Thornton Wilder depicts an Everyman family as it narrowly escapes one end-of-the-world disaster after another, from the Ice Age to flood to war.

Tickets

$5-$15
Phone: 216-241-6000
Web: https://www.playhousesquare.org/multicategory/category/cleveland-state-university