Programme – The Skin of Our Teeth

HASTINGS GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL
PRESENTS

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

BY THORNTON WILDER

SCHOOL ASSEMBLY HALL
31st MAY 1st, 2nd, 7th JUNE

CAST

SABINA   Alison Black   Jeanette Wattereus
MRS. ANTROBUS   Kathryn Anderson   Rhona Woodcock
GLADYS   Anne Drury   Karen Luke
HENRY   Virginia Heath   Stephanie Norton
TELEGRAPH BOY   Lisl Prendergast
MR. ANTROBUS   Maxine Boag  Penelope Stalker
FORTUNE TELLER   Robyn Halstead
DINOSAUR   Tessa Danckwerts
MAMMOTH   Angela Danckwerts
MR. FITZPATRICK   Joyce Wilson
HOMER   Heather Moran
IVY   Heather Moran
THE MUSES   Gwitha Hunt   Deborah Grindell   Rona McRobbie
HESTER   Gillian Simmons
DOCTOR   Joan Steenson
CHAIR PUSHER   Huia Tomlins
BAILEY   Judith Clark
JUDGE MOSES   Margaret Velvin
TREMAYNE   Kathryn Knight
BROADCAST OFFICIAL   Rosemary Garnett
BROADCAST ANNOUNCER   Tessa Danckwerts
REFUGEE PROFESSOR   Helen Tustin
REFUGEES AND CONVENERS   A. Danckwerts, G. Simmons, J. Clark, D. Lett, R. Shooter, S. Dysart, C. Brown, J. Steenson, E. Guthrie, J. Brunton, C. Boyle, A. Coles, M. Thomsen, B. Eastwood, P. Stevens, J. Condon, R. Garnett

MANAGEMENT

STAGE SETS AND STAGE MANAGER   Mr. Melling
PROPERTIES   Miss McColl, Mr. Black
SOUND EFFECTS   Mr. Callingham
WARDROBE   Miss Hebley, Miss Jamie, Mrs, Melling
PROGRAMME   Miss Briggs

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

This play tells of man’s endless struggle for survival both against the forces of nature in the world around him and the destructive forces of his own nature. Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus are primitive men and women fighting the cold of the Ice Age; Adam and Eve aghast to find their son capable of murder; Noah forsaking his wife for the wily Sabina while the storm breaks over the world; and Everyman and his family threatened by war and man’s lust to kill. So far, says Thornton Wilder, mankind has survived all these perils “by the skin of his teeth”. Will we always be so lucky?

ACT I
The Ice Age.
Scene:   The living room of the Antrobus family apartment in New York city. Time:   Both the present day and 20,000 years ago. Man’s hard-won knowledge, his laws, his arts, his very existence, are threatened by the catastrophic advance of the Ice Age.

ACT II
The Deluge.
Scene:   The Broadwalk, Atlanta City. All living creatures are gathered together in a great convention, too intent on their pleasures to heed the gathering storm. Even Mr. Antrobus forgets his family responsibilities when Sabina infatuates him, until the flood rises to engulf them all.

ACT III
Total War:   the aftermath of a man-made disaster.
Scene:   The Antrobus living-room, much later. The women-folk, surviving in the ruins of their city, welcome back from the war their men-folk who have perhaps conquered the enemy, but have not conquered within themselves the forces that made the war.

PRODUCED BY MISS C. M. MILLER
Proceeds in aid of the Girls’ Gymnasium Fund.

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