"The Skin of Our Teeth" ends this weekend

The Department of Theatre and Dance and the University Players have been hard at work this fall on their first production of the 2008-09 season: Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Skin of Our Teeth. The play, which opened last weekend in the Alice Jepson Theatre, is the satiric story of the extraordinary Antrobus family through the ages. This family has survived flood, fire, pestilence, the ice age, a dozen wars and as many depressions. Ultimately bewitched, befuddled and becalmed, they are the stuff of which heroes and buffoons are made. Their survival is a wacky testament of faith in humanity.

Dorothy Holland, associate professor of theatre at the University of Richomond, directs the production which features Actors’ Equity Artists-in-Residence Joe Inscoe and Irene Ziegler. The student cast includes Rex Bradley, Ryan Breen, John Conrad, Alyssa Davis, Caitlyn Duer, Adam Ferguson, Mark Ferguson, Mary Beth Gayle, Christopher Hooper, Patrick Jones, Jackson Knox, Kiara Lee, Bryarly Richards and Amy Szerlong. Also included are University of Richmond community members Jane Dowrick, Elizabeth Kirkwood and Fiona Ross.

To learn more about the play, listen to the podcast that was recored by Peter Solomon for WCVE Public Radio. In it, Solomon talks to actor Joe Inscoe, offers clips from the production and discusses the impact this play has in 2008.

The production runs nightly through Saturday, November 22, 2008. Tickets are currently on sale through the Modlin Center Box Office for $15 with discounts for seniors, students, children, groups and University of Richmond employees and students.

I hope you can make it!