THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH Previews Apr 20 2022, 12:08:36 AM
Saw this tonight. The material is, of course, brilliant, but this production is mainly a miss, with the exception of a stellar third act. The tone of THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH is notoriously hard, and Blain-Cruz does not land it. The production does not trust the text and tries to be a broad 50s TV situation comedy in the first two acts. It's absurdist, but it's not supposed to be a wacky comedy. The production, in an attempt to heighten the meta-ness, mistakenly acts "in quote
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