Students of Fayetteville-Manlius High School will perform “The Skin of Our Teeth,” by Thornton Wilder, as their fall play.
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 (“I don’t understand a word of this play!”).
Whetherhe 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.
Completed by the author less than a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the show 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.
Performances will be 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20, 21 and 22, in the high school auditorium.
Tickets are $15 at the door or at fallplay.org.
Cast
Broadcasters: Nate Hinman, Skylar Brenner
Sabina: Zoya James
Stage Manager/Michael: Michael Sereluca
Maggie Antrobus: Anqi Geng
Dinosaur: Clare Bingham
Mammoth: Quinn Coughlin, Megan Schrader
Gladys: Sawyer Martinez-Arias
Henry: Miles Prelewicz
George Antrobus: Jack Chin
Fortune Teller: Mozy Fahrenkrug
Ensemble
Lyla Abboud, Aneesa Ali, Kyle Callahan, Alexandra Cech, Ruby Gabriel, August Garcia-Mueller, Ender Green, Eva Halloran, Abby Otte, Lydia Radley, Kay Rudolph, Sophie Slade, Lily Van Wormer, Betsy Vincent
Quartet
Evie Clark, Leo Clark, Sarah Danies, Kay Rudolph
Syracuse.com will publish information provided by schools on their shows throughout the season.
Other school shows in CNY
- Onondaga Central Drama Club presents Disney’s ‘Between the Lines’
- Mexico Middle School to make splash this week with ‘Little Mermaid Jr.’
- Cortland High School students to perform ‘Puffs’ as fall play
- Westhill High School Drama Club bakes up a murder mystery this weekend
- Auburn High School presents ‘The Unusual Suspects’ this week