January 29, 2022

This play by Thornton Wilder was the perfect choice for our Potluck Players Revival. Our merry band has been reading plays together once a month for more than three decades. The pandemic curtailed our potluck gatherings, but we soldiered on for a year of on-line readings until Zoom fatigue set in. Now, after a long hiatus, we’re back!

“The Skin of Our Teeth” (like our own amateur troupe) seems to get better with age. One of the characters aptly describes this play she appears in: “It’s all about the troubles the human race has gone through, there’s a subject for you!” Indeed, “Skin” has a little of everything: comedy, satire, drama, dinosaurs, Freudian psychology, and a pinch of hope for good measure. Just what actors and audiences need in these (and all) troubled times.

Fitting three acts into an hour of reading required considerable editing of the script. We stitched together the opening and close of Act One, did the same with the Act Three, and skipped right over Act Two. The result was a fast-paced play that kept the ten of us engaged and entertained during our Zoom performance.

Many thanks to Cold Reads/International for supplying this play! This website is a great find for us and will be a valuable resource for our upcoming readings. We hope to be back again soon with another review.