“MOST PEOPLE REALLY HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT AND A ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS. NOBODY ACTUALLY STARVES - YOU CAN ALWAYS EAT GRASS OR SOMETHING.”

After the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Our Town, as the United States entered WW2, Thornton Wilder wrote The Skin of Our Teeth, a madcap comedy about what it means to be human and our capacity to be both good and evil.

The Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey, seem like a typical American nuclear family, but they are living in the last Ice Age, and the world is about to end! Are they Adam and Eve? Noah and his wife on the Ark? Or survivors of a nuclear holocaust?

In this meta-theatrical masterpiece, part American sit-com, part parable, time and place and the very fabric of the theatre warp and collide, as the play grapples with questions about humanity, its destiny, and its survival.

Can we save the human race?

And is it worth the effort?

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ORIGIN™ THEATRICAL ON BEHALF OF SAMUEL FRENCH A CONCORD THEATRICALS COMPANY.SECOND YEAR STUDENTS (BACHELOR OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES – ACTING AND PERFORMANCE) (ARB401)