The Skin of Our Teeth: A Play

Written by Wilder less than a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, broke from established theatrical conventions of nostalgia and sentiment and walked off with the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Combining farce, burlesque, satire, and more, Wilder depicts an ordinary family as it narrowly escapes one end-of-the-world disaster after another. Meet George and Maggie Antrobus (married only 5,000 years); their two children, Gladys and Henry (perfect in way!); and their maid, Sabina (the ageless vamp), as they overcome ice, flood, and war--by the skin of their teeth.