Word: antrobus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skin Of Our Teeth, as Stephen Nightingale directs it at Lowell House, carries off Wilder's con game with only a few pratfalls. The play is a loosely conceived Everyman telling the never-ending story of Mr. George Antrobus (Stuart Beck), his wife (Mary Belle Felten-stein), and two kids (John Sansone and Jody Adams). Wilder places this New Jersey family in the Ice Age, the flood, and the end of World War II (which wasn't over in 1942), revelling in anachronism and exploded convention...
...time, but has a tendency to mix, or imperfectly finish its conventions. The third act opening (where the play stops because seven of the company are struck with botulism) is magnificent and hilarious because the whole company, especially Beck and Jamie Rosenthal (playing a Miss Somerset playing Sabina, George Antrobus' maid and quondam mistress) degenerates from high flown symbols to grumbling Loebies. The switch is drastic and devastating...
Electric Clouds. This charade has been convulsing London audiences for three months. Its co-authors are Actor-Writers John Antrobus and Terence A.P.S. ("Spike") Milligan. Spike climbed Mount Everest from the inside on BBC radio's Goon Show. He also appeared in The Running, Jumping, and Standing Still Film, the craziest movie short ever made...
...Antrobus, educated at Sandhurst, is the sensible partner who takes on the practical problems of the production, such as settling with the unions the question of whether the parrot is an actor or a prop. Milligan, a 45-year-old Irishman born in India, has his head in electric clouds. "It's the end of the bike," he glooms. "Fin de cycle." He has lots of other ideas about life after World War III-selling plots of sea, for example, because land is so expensive. The phone rings on his desk -and rings and rings and rings...