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The Skin of Our Teeth

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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.

"Wonderfully wise...A tremendously exciting and profound stage fable. -- Herald Tribune

"Extraordinarily good...one of the finest American plays of the 20th century, a modern classic that ought to be seen as often as Our Town." - Wall Street Journal

"For an American dramatist, all roads lead back to Thornton Wilder...The Skin of Our Teeth was a remarkable gift to an America entrenched in catastrophe, a tribute to the trait of human endurance." -- Paula Vogel, Foreword, THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH