The North Shore Players, a Danvers community theater, invites you to three hours of classic American drama as they proudly present The Skin of Our Teeth. The play, by Thornton Wilder (Our Town) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943.  

Wilder chronicles the 5,000-year marriage of George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, N.J. as they endure the Ice Age, floods, wars and two difficult children. 

 No wonder the show runs three hours!  

 Hogan Regional Auditorium, 450 Maple St., Danvers. 

     Curtain is at 7 p.m., May 2 and May 3

                               and 2 p.m. on May 4. 

TIckets available here: 

https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/skin-of-our-teeth-tickets

The Story: Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter-town couple (married for 5,000 years), who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first husband and wife, Adam and Eve; the two Antrobus children, Gladys (perfect in every way, of course) and Henry (who likes to throw rocks and was formerly known as Cain); and their garrulous maid, Sabina (the eternal seductress), who takes it upon herself to break out of character and interrupt the course of the drama at every opportunity (“I don’t understand a word of this play!”). Whether he is inventing the alphabet or merely saving the world from apocalypse, George and his redoubtable family somehow manage to survive – by the skin of their teeth.

Completed by the author less than a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) broke from established theatrical conventions and walked off with the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Combining farce, burlesque, satire, and elements of the comic strip, Thornton Wilder depicts an Everyman family as it narrowly escapes one end-of-the-world disaster after another, from the Ice Age to flood to war.