

Three Plays: Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, and the Matchmaker
Thornton Wilder
Awards & Recognition
Winner! 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the groundbreaking satiric fantasy follows the extraordinary Antrobus family down through the ages from the time of 'The War' surviving flood, fire, pestilence, locusts, the ice age, the pox and the double feature, a dozen subsequent wars and as many depressions.
Ultimately, they are the stuff of which heroes and buffoons are made.
Their survival is a vividly theatrical testament of faith in humanity."
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"Wonderfully wise... A tremendously exciting and profound stage fable."
— Herald Tribune
"For an American dramatist, all roads lead back to Thornton Wilder... The Skin of Our Teeth was a remarkable gift to an America entrenched in catastrophe, a tribute to the trait of human endurance."
— Paula Vogel, Foreword, The Skin of Our Teeth
| Character |
|---|
| Sabina |
| Mr. Fitzpatrick |
| Mrs. Antrobus |
| Dinosaur |
| Mammoth |
| Telegraph Boy |
| Gladys |
| Henry |
| Mr. Antrobus |
| Doctor |
| Professor |
| Judge |
| Homer |
| Miss E. Muse |
| Miss T. Muse |
| Miss M. Muse |
| Usher (2) |
| Girl (Drum Majorette) (2) |
| Fortune Teller |
| Chari Pusher (2) |
| Conveener (5) |
| Broadcast Official |
| Defeated Candidate |
| Mr. Tremayne |
| Hester |
The Skin of Our Teeth - 2022 Lincoln Center Montage
The Skin Of Our Teeth is a American comedy play written by Thornton Wilder and published by Samuel French in New York (1945).
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