Thornton Wilder's The Skin of our Teeth

"Ladies and gentlemen, I’m not going to play this particular scene tonight." - Sabina

Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) telescopes an audacious stretch of western history and mythology into a family drama, showing how the course of human events operates like theatre itself: constantly mutable, vanishing and beginning again.

Kyle Gillette explores Wilder’s extraordinary play in three par...