The Skin of Our Teeth

By Thornton Wilder, Directed by Kym Longhi, Presented by BA Theatre Arts 

Performances:

Friday, November 14, 2025 7:30pm

Saturday, November 15, 2025 7:30pm

Sunday, November 16, 2025 2:00pm

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 7:30pm

Thursday, November 20, 2025 7:30pm

Friday, November 21, 2025 7:30pm

Saturday, November 22, 2025 7:30pm

Sunday, November 23, 2025 2:00pm (ASL Interpreted)

We want to thank Gabrielle Reiser and Chloe Dant from Carlstrom ASL Interpreting Program at North Central University for providing the ASL interpreting service. 

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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, and 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.

Summary

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. 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.