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May 4, 2007

After Hours: Wilder comedy a paean to survival

Photo by Chris Bennion
Howie Seago and Anne Scurria with their pet mammoth in “The Skin of Our Teeth.”

SEATTLE —Thornton Wilder's absurdist comedy “The Skin of Our Teeth” presents a typical American family living in a world where they are continuously at risk of being trampled by a dinosaur, threatened by an iceberg, ravaged by a flood and ruined by war.


 
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