Dueling Critics: The Skin of Our Teeth
By The ArchivesDueling Critics: The Skin of Our Teeth
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Five years after Thornton Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Our Town, he won a second Pulitzer for The Skin Of Our Teeth. The story revolves around the Antrobus family who seem completely normal on the surface. Actually, the family, and their housekeeper, are stand-ins for human archetypes—Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Lilith, the man who invented the wheel, the woman who invented cooking, and so forth.Eight Forty-Eight’s dueling critics Jonathan Abarbanel and Kelly Kleiman. tell us what it all means, and whether it’s worth the journey back in time.
On Stage:
The Skin of Our Teeth
Through Mar. 21
The Artistic Home Theater
Music Button: Heinz Kiessling, “Haute Couture” , from the CD Spending Spree (out of print, unknown label)