The Skin of Our Teeth

Date/Time:
Friday, November 14, 2025
7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Offer:
General Seating — 2 Tickets

Event Details:

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, and 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.

Summary

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. 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.

Location:
Stoll Thrust Theatre - Rarig Center
330 21st Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Parking Information:
The 21st Avenue Ramp
Enter on 21st Avenue, near the corner of S. 4th Street
Covered parking available, handicap spaces available, accepts credit cards and cash

Lot 94
Enter on S. 5th Street, near 21st Avenue
Handicap spaces available, accepts credit cards and cash, approx .2 miles from Rarig Center

Riverside Avenue
Street metered parking is sometimes available on Riverside Avenue.
Accepts cash and MPLS Parking App

For more information about UMN parking please visit https://www.pts.umn.edu/park/visitorparking.

Accessibility Information:
For ASL interpreting (or any other disability-related accommodations), please contact Qiuxia Welch at huxx0071@umn.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

Organization Details:

The University of Minnesota Twin Cities Department of Theatre Arts & Dance is a robust and well-rounded producing hub for creation, exploration, and artistic excellence. Our primary mission is to educate our students and our audiences about the performing arts and about the social issues and human emotions the arts speak to so powerfully. We are committed to realizing this mission by creating, producing, and studying works of theatre and dance, and performing them publicly for diverse audiences drawn from both the University and the community at large.

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Offer: General Seating — 2 Tickets

Date/Time: Friday, November 14, 2025 7:30 pm

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