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The Skin of Our Teeth (1983)
Directed by Jack O'Brien
Overview
Production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-winning play “The Skin of Our Teeth,” the story of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their children Henry and Gladys, and their maid Sabina. They are simultaneously a typical American family living in a present-day New Jersey suburb and are also Adam, Eve, Lilith, Cain and a daughter who survive the Ice Age (although their pet dinosaurs do not), the Flood (as in the book of Genesis in the Bible) and War (as in WWII).
Length 113 minutes
Actors
Blair Brown | Sada Thompson | Harold Gould | Jeffrey Combs | Monique Fowler | Rue McClanahan | John Houseman | Diana Bellamy | Renee Brooks | Bonnie Campbell-Britton | Gary Dontzig | James Coyle | Larry Drake | John Eames | Bill Geisslinger | Susan Hegarty | Michael Lueders | Jonathan McMurtry | Sean Sullivan | Rosina Widdowson-Reynolds | G. Wood | Jeff Harry Woolf