University Theatre presents Thornton Wilder's 'The Skin of Our Teeth'

Emma Fisher (Gladys), Jorden Charley-Whatley (Henry), EmmaJane Gruhl (Mrs. Antrobus), Kayla Klammer (Sabina) and Luke C. Glassman (Mr. Antrobus) in the UNL University Theatre production of "The Skin of Our Teeth." Photo by Doug Smith
Emma Fisher (Gladys), Jorden Charley-Whatley (Henry), EmmaJane Gruhl (Mrs. Antrobus), Kayla Klammer (Sabina) and Luke C. Glassman (Mr. Antrobus) in the UNL University Theatre production of "The Skin of Our Teeth." Photo by Doug Smith

University Theatre presents Thornton Wilder's 'The Skin of Our Teeth'

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University Theatre presents "The Skin of Our Teeth"
University Theatre presents "The Skin of Our Teeth"
Lincoln, Neb.--University Theatre, the academic year production program in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, opens it spring season with the Thornton Wilder classic, "The Skin of Our Teeth." Performances are in the Howell Theatre, first floor of the Temple Building, 12th & R, March 5, 6, 7 and 11, 12, 13, 14 at 7:30 p.m. and March 15 at 2 p.m. Tickets are available from the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12th, Monday through Friday 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. or at (402) 472-4747 and one hour prior to curtain in the Temple Lobby. Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 students. Tickets are also available on-line at carsonschool.unl.edu.
 
Professor Virginia Smith directs this 1943 Pulitzer Prize winner for Best Drama that breaks with established theatrical conventions, incorporating numerous styles in its telling of the Antrobus family, George and Maggie, their children Gladys and Henry, and maid Sabina. Written post-Depression, this “typical American family” struggles through the Ice Age, a great flood, and a great war during each of three acts. Do they survive? Will we survive?
 
Smith explains, “What’s happening to you and your world right now is not unique. Some version of it has happened before and will no doubt happen again. Life is about struggle and overcoming. Part of why this is so clear to us is that in 1942Thornton Wilder, in the midst of death, destruction and uncertainty, saw the pattern and wrote a play; a play about hope, about overcoming. This is thatplay.”
 
Graduate student Chadwick Taylor assists Smith. The Antrobus family is comprised of undergraduate performance majors Luke C. Glassman (Mr. George Antrobus), Emma Jane Gruhl (Mrs. Maggie Antrobus), Emma Fisher (Gladys), Jorden Charley-Whatley (Henry) and Kayla Klammer (maid, Sabina). Members of the Ensemble are Amy Almond, Abbie Austin, Taylor Adair Baggett, Michael Barth, Andrew Hill, Bryan Howard, Michelle Ingle, Madison Taylor Nichols, Christian Novotny, Lindsey Parodi, Nicholas Prior and Tony Thomas.
 
The production is designed by Sheric Hull (lighting), Megan Cudd (costumes), Sonia Sandoval (sound), Alexis Borchardt (projections) and Michaela Lynne Stein (scenery). Stein’s designs are in partial fulfillment of her Master of Fine Arts degree in Scenic Design. Stephanie Rae Kahler stage manages.