NEW YORK—Thornton Wilder explores the endurance of the human spirit in his Pulitzer Prize-winning and seldom-seen work, “The Skin of Our Teeth.” Presenting an allegorical journey in which the normal rules of time and structure do not apply, the play is being given a striking revival by Theatre for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
George Antrobus (David Rasche), a long-time resident of Excelsior, New Jersey, is a widely respected man. Among his contributions to society are the alphabet, the wheel, the lever, and the brewing of beer. By his side for the last several thousand years have been his stalwart wife, Maggie (Kecia Lewis), the inventor of the apron, and their maid, Sabina (Mary Wiseman).
The clan comes face to face with, among other things, an ice age, a great flood, and seven years of war.
