The Skin of Our Teeth

Release date: April 17, 2009 |

Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Skin of Our Teeth is being presented by Goucher senior theatre majors and minors on Friday, April 17, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, April 18, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Thursday, April 23, through Saturday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in the college’s Mildred Dunnock Theater.

Tickets to the performance are $9 general admission and $5 for students, faculty, and staff with a Goucher ID. Contact the Mildred Dunnock Box Office at 410-337-6512 to reserve a ticket or for more information.

The Skin of Our Teeth is about the endurance of the human spirit, fierce familial love, and hard-earned redemption. The play tells the story of George and Maggie Antrobus (married for 5,000 years); their children, Henry and Gladys; and their maid, Sabina. After narrowly escaping a fast-moving wall of ice, the Antrobuses land in Atlantic City, N.J., where George, the renowned inventor of the wheel, becomes president and is suddenly embroiled in scandal. Through scandal, natural disaster, and war, the Antrobuses find their way home, where they confront a family battle hundreds of years in the making. Despite these seemingly insurmountable odds, this eternal family manages to overcome it all—by the skin of their teeth.

The play serves as the capstone project for senior theatre majors and minors. Each student performs in the show and fills a production role. In the fall semester, the seniors met in a seminar to study and analyze the play and develop a production concept.