The Garden City High School Drama Department will be holding auditions for the second production of the season, “The Skin of Our Teeth”, on September 16th from 3:00-5:00 p.m. and September 17th from 6:00-9:00 p.m. in the GCHS Auditorium. Callback auditions will be held on September 18th.
“The Skin of Our Teeth” is a Pulitzer Prize winning play written by Thornton Wilder shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Auditions are open to any current Garden City High School student. This production will be directed by Ms. Alice Hilt. Audition packets are available at the high school outside the black box theatre-Room A110, Room C109, or Room CL120. This show has 18-20 actors, with equal numbers of male and female parts.
Synopsis: Meet George and Maggie Antrobus of Excelsior, New Jersey, a suburban, commuter town couple (married for 5,000 years), who bear more than a casual resemblance to that first husband and wife, Adam and Eve; the two Antrobus children, Gladys (perfect in every way, of course) and Henry (who likes to throw rocks and was formerly known as Cain); and their garrulous maid, Sabina (the eternal seductress), who takes it upon herself to break out of character and interrupt the course of the drama at every opportunity (“I don’t understand a word of this play!”). Whether he is inventing the alphabet or merely saving the world from apocalypse, George and his redoubtable family somehow manage to survive – by the skin of their teeth.