Review of The Skin of Our Teeth

12th March 2004

 

THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH

David Benedict, Rhoda Koenig and Heather Neill chew over Thornton Wilder’s neglected apocalyptic comedy, revived now at the Young Vic. Dominic Cavendish hosts.

It’s one of those plays that is both optimistic and serious and… that’s not a contradiction.