The Skin of Our Teeth (Broadway Theatre Archive)

Buy This Item The Skin of Our Teeth (Broadway Theatre Archive) by Kultur Video  Available from Amazon  $24.95  on 11-27-2008     Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play brings to life the fate and foibles of the celebrated Antrobus family--a bold and brassy embodiment of Wilder's vision of the American people. This eloquent comedy serves up an allegorical tale of one American family whose members must come to grips with their destinies. Having survived fire, flood, pestilence, seven-year locusts, the Ice Age, and a dozen wars, the Antrobuses are as durable as radiators, and remain as optimistic as a spring day. A genuine modern classic. "Wilder's masterwork - a love letter to the human spirit." --Nicky Silver. With Blair Brown, Harold Gould, Rue McClanahan, Sada Thompson, and John Houseman. Reader Reviews This play was originally produced on broadway in 1942, at a pretty anxious time in the world. Thorton Wilder certainly had a genius for heightening the effect his plays had by attacking the formality of structure. More than Our Town, his relentless unravelling of boundaries between audience and cast, production and chaos, seems to break down the resistance to the message he intends to get across. The best example of this is the hours of the night segment that ends this piece. After going through such contortions to make it appear that the cast assigned to perform it are gone, and the play certainly should end right there with the audience deserving to get their money back, this is, of course, the most magnificent, enlightening and heartening piece that ties everything before it together. Good to great broadway cast, clever staging, and a book that has no equal in the history of theatre. A point of trivia, George Antrobus is listed as the author of the late sixties film about life after disaster, The Bedsitting Room.

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