​ABOUT THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH (Read the press release.)

​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). 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.
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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.
 

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RAVE REVIEWS FOR THE WILBURY PRODUCTION OF THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH:

"Wilbury's Skin of Our Teeth is not afraid to take chances...The writing is often silly — Act One includes a woolly mammoth and a dinosaur coming into the Antrobus home to warm up — but Wilder’s message, revealed poignantly in the last act, is that no matter the tragedy, resilient people carry on, regroup and begin again....The Skin of Our Teeth will make you laugh, maybe make you cringe periodically (think woolly mammoth), but it will also make you think." - The Providence Journal

"The Skin of Our Teeth is more than a play; it is a living, breathing work of art...The parallels between the world in The Skin Of Our Teeth and the troubled world we inhabit now are striking. While we face our fears of nuclear war, destruction brought about by climate change, as well as terrorism and economic insecurity, the Antrobus family reminds us of our basic ability to survive natural and unnatural disasters. We are left feeling a sense of hope in the midst of grim uncertainty."- Edge Media Network

"Thornton Wilder’s allegorical comedy-drama, written in 1942, is filled with farce, history, biblical references and a daring approach to theatre that is as relevant to audiences today as it was back then...It is an over-the-top production unlike anything we’ve seen. Let yourself go, get with the program, catch all those biblical and historical references, and enjoy the craziness." - Warwick Beacon

"Ambitious, anything-goes staging...Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth was written in the middle of World War II, but it resonates today both thematically (climate destruction, refugees, apocalyptic despair) and via plot points that seem to reference the current president." -Law and Order Party

"Director Josh Short uses every inch of space in his new theatre to stage this show with the performers whirling all around the audience. He infuses his large 15 member cast with an enormous amount of energy and obtains splendid performances from them...For a wild and crazy show that suddenly becomes meaningful and dramatic by reflecting on contemporary problems that still exist in 2018, be sure to catch The Skin of Our Teeth by the Wilbury Theatre Group." -Theater Mirror

​"Surreal...The Wilbury production succeeds because it heightens the absurdity of a play about catastrophe that Wilder himself warns us not to take too seriously....Singers, a horn player, and dancers roam the theater as the cast members continually reconfigure the performance space. At one point, I was asked to give up my chair. Nothing is stable, everything changes — which makes sense in a play set both in the Stone Age and the present and populated by a fortune teller, refugees, a woolly mammoth, and a dinosaur...But, as crazy as the play becomes over three acts, the message always revolves around the simple truth that life goes on." ​-Arts Fuse Boston
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PRODUCTION PHOTOS

CAST

CREATIVE TEAM

Tom Roberts

Aaron Blanck

Ari Kassabian

Beth Alianiello

Melissa Penick

David Tessier

Maggie Papa

Brian Kozak

Sarah Leach

Angelique Dina

Jason Roth

Matthew Gorgone

Phoenyx Williams

Shannon Hartman

Joey Macari

The Skin of Our Teeth
By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Josh Short

Music by Matt Requintina
Costume Design by Meg Donnelly
Light/Sound Design by ​Andy Russ
Set/Visual Design by Keri King

Production Photos by ​Erin X. Smithers
Technical Direction by Justin Carroll
Assistant Dirs. Meredith Healy & Logan Serabian
Production Assistant Jessie March
Assistant Stage Management by Elizabeth Craig
Stage Management by Paul Trinh

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