Ti-Ahwaga Players present ‘Skin Of Our Teeth’

Ti-Ahwaga Community Players (TCP), located at 42 Delphine St. in Owego, will be staging Thorton Wilder’s “Skin Of Our Teeth” the first three weekends in March beginning on March 3.  

Thanks to the Floyd Hooker Foundation, TCP will be performing two additional shows on March 2 and March 9, which will be free to Tioga County Schools. This production is directed by Diane Arbes, assistant directed by Dr. Keith Nichols, and produced by Sonny DeWitt. Tickets can be purchased on line at www.tiahwaga.com or by calling the box office at (607) 687-2130.  

The Skin of Our Teeth is a Pulitzer Prize winning comedy, which masterfully combines farce, burlesque, and satire to engage the audience. Skin of our Teeth is an amazing masterpiece in which Thornton Wilder departs from his studied use of nostalgia and sentiment as in Our Town and breaks from the conventional elements of the traditional theater experience of his era.  

The Antrobus’, their children, and Sabina, their maid, narrowly escape one disaster after another, from ancient times to the present, the frigid cold of the ice age, the impending flood, and ultimately, the constant threat of war. But because of humanity’s resilience and perseverance, the family, who represent mankind, continue to surmount the odds, by the skin of their teeth.  

Mr. George Antrobus is played by Seth Vaughn, and Maggie Antrobus by Peggy Medina – a couple married only 5,000 years. They have two children, Gladys and Henry who are played by Francesca Decker and Shane Smith. The maid Sabina, the ageless vamp, is played by Talia Saraceno. 

Additionally there are six to ten characters that assume roles such as homeless vagabonds, poets and philosophers, conventioneers, fortunetellers, stage managers and even the family pets, a wooly mammoth and a dinosaur. This madcap assortment of characters manage to overcome ice, flood, and war – by the skin of their teeth.