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World War II-era play still has a lot to say.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-MAR-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: World War II-era play still has a lot to say.(Reviews)(Talented cast pulls Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winner into the future)(Review)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Paul Denison The Register-Guard

Thornton Wilder wrote "The Skin of Our Teeth" in wartime, and it's about war: war between optimism and pessimism, hope and despair about the family of man.

Half a century after it was first staged, Wilder's 1943 Pulitzer Prize winner can seem preachy and old-fashioned in its high-minded moralizing, like a puzzling artifact plucked from the ashes of an earlier civilization.

But in writing this play about the Antrobus family's eons-long struggle to survive natural and moral catastrophes, Wilder took the long view - backward, forward, inward - and made sharp, sometimes profound, observations about history and human...

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