The Skin of Our Teeth

"Join us for our world-ending classic disaster comedy
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
Presented by Cleveland State University Department of Theatre and Dance

February 23 - March 5, 2023
Outcalt Theatre at Playhouse Square
Written by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Toby Vera Bercovici

American Sign Language (ASL) Supported Performance
Thursday, March 2, 2023 -
ASL Interpreters will be present to sign along with the show.

GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS $15.00

www.playhousesquare.org | 216.241.6000

Discount Promo Codes:
STUCSU - $5.00 CSU Student (w/ID)
ALUCSU - $5.00 CSU Alum
FAC - $5.00 CSU Faculty/Staff (w/ID)
1SEN - $10.00 Seniors 65+
NST - $8.00 Non-CSU student (w/School ID)
ASL - $5.00 Sign Language Performance (March 2, 2023 only)
GRP -  $5.00 Groups of 10+ call the Ticket Office for assistance

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH combines farce, burlesque, satire, and elements of the comic strip. Author 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. Although written in 1942, the play feels surprisingly timely in our modern era.

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." - CSU Dept. of Theater and Dance.

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The Skin of Our Teeth

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"Join us for our world-ending classic disaster comedy
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
Presented by Cleveland State University Department of Theatre and Dance

February 23 - March 5, 2023
Outcalt Theatre at Playhouse Square
Written by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Toby Vera Bercovici

American Sign Language (ASL) Supported Performance
Thursday, March 2, 2023 -
ASL Interpreters will be present to sign along with the show.

GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS $15.00

www.playhousesquare.org | 216.241.6000

Discount Promo Codes:
STUCSU - $5.00 CSU Student (w/ID)
ALUCSU - $5.00 CSU Alum
FAC - $5.00 CSU Faculty/Staff (w/ID)
1SEN - $10.00 Seniors 65+
NST - $8.00 Non-CSU student (w/School ID)
ASL - $5.00 Sign Language Performance (March 2, 2023 only)
GRP -  $5.00 Groups of 10+ call the Ticket Office for assistance

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH combines farce, burlesque, satire, and elements of the comic strip. Author 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. Although written in 1942, the play feels surprisingly timely in our modern era.

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." - CSU Dept. of Theater and Dance.

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