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Thornton Wilder's Pultizer Prize winning drama is presented by The Masque of La Salle College.
Written in 1942, this play is a comedy about George_Antrobus, his wife, and two children, and their maid, Lily Sabina Fairweather, all of Excelsior, New Jersey.
George Antrobus is John Doe or George Spelvin or you -- the average American at grips with a destiny; sometimes sour, sometimes sweet. The Antrobuses have survived fire, flood, pestilence, the seven-year locusts, the ice age, the black pox and the double feature, a dozen wars and a many depressions. They run many a gamut, are as durable as radiators, and look upon the future with a disarming optimism.
Alternately bewitched, befuddled and becalmed, they are the stuff of which heroes re made -- heroes and buffoons. They are true offspring of Adam and Eve, victim of all the ills that flesh is heir to. They have survived a thousand calamities by the skin of their teeth. Here is a tribute to their indestructibility.
Publication Date
Spring 1967
Language
English
City
Philadelphia
Keywords
The Masque. Thornton Wilder
Disciplines
Theatre and Performance Studies
Recommended Citation
La Salle College, "The Skin of Our Teeth" (1967). The Masque Programs. 69.
https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/themasque/69
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