Tickets are available for Bluffton University’s fall production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Skin of Our Teeth,” by Thornton Wilder.
Dr. Melissa Friesen, a professor and chair of communication and theatre at Bluffton, will direct the show, being staged at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30-Nov. 1 and at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 2 in Ramseyer Auditorium in College Hall. Reserved tickets, $8 for adults and $6 for senior citizens (65 and over) and non-Bluffton students, are available online at http://tickets.bluffton.edu or at the box office—located at the Marbeck Center information desk—between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. daily. For assistance with tickets, contact the box office at 419-358-3239.
The play is set in 1942—or maybe the dawn of human history, or maybe the present. Mr. Antrobus comes home from a busy day inventing the wheel and the alphabet to be greeted by his wife of 5,000 years, slingshot-obsessed son, precocious daughter and ever-present maid (not to mention the dinosaur and mammoth). The family faces repeated catastrophes, both natural and human-made, in this genre-bending, comic allegory of the human condition, struggling to survive war, floods, ice and themselves—by the skin of their teeth.
Cast members include Brianna Lugibihl, a junior from Gomer, Ohio; Rebecca Juliana, a junior from Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Joe Wilson, a senior from Covington, Ohio; Emily Short, a first-year student from Archbold, Ohio...
Lucas Augustine, a sophomore from Wawarsing, N.Y.; Jill Bornhorst, a senior from Fort Loramie, Ohio; Theran Carroll, a sophomore from Elida, Ohio; Alex Lugibihl, a first-year student from Elida; Carrie Blust and Micayla Hanover, both first-year students from Sidney, Ohio...
Alex Parker, a junior from Alger, Ohio; Miriam Fike, a first-year student from Lima, Ohio; and Brooke Ryman, a first-year student from Troy, Ohio. Another student, Shannon Thiebeau, a senior from St. Marys, Ohio, is the stage manager.
Mervin Schrock and Joan Bauer, both of Findlay, Ohio, are the technical director and costume designer, respectively.
