Congratulations on a fine production of "The Skin of Our Teeth".  My wife
and I saw it with friends Thursday night.  I had been bugging Jim Lewis
for years to put it on.  I had first seen it about 1947, at the Univesity
of Texas at Austin.  Then it was quite timely, as it is now.

Just a point of clarification.  I know it is acceptable for producers to
take some liberties in a production which might not be allowable in a
written work.  But just for information,

1.      Was there a scrap of dialogue about Mrs. Antrobus finding a sprig
of forsythia omitted?
2.      Was the probable relationship of Sabrina and Mr. Antrobus as
companions on the battlefield played down in this production?

Or were these 'liberties taken with the UT-A production.

I'm quite sure that the  brief scene in which Mrs. Anthropus sounds like
Phyllis Schaffly is a modernization.  Personally, I didn't like it, but
maybe it has some cmic value in pointing to a paradox of our times.  How
can we stand for healthy family life and not sound like P.S.?

        Carter Pate

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Robert Duffy wrote:

> Please join us for the final weekend of performances of The
> University Theatre's production of Thornton Wilder's THE SKIN OF OUR
> TEETH, a comedy about the resilience of the human race.  1943
> Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
>
> Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 pm in the Dorothy Hackett Ward
> Theatre/Fine Arts Center.
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