nsion, he uses imaginary as the most universal and atemporal 'tool' to create required illusion. Thus, in the plays, everything is highly symbolic and underwritten with the rule: "All, Everywhere, Always". Stage as a symbol of life and characters as representatives of humanity cannot have real objects.
             In this work, it proved impossible to concentrate only on two characters as it do not reveal all the mechanisms of perceiving time in the presented plays. To have the full image of the problem, it was essential to have at least a pair of each. These are: Emily Webb and George Gibbs (Our Town) and the Antrobus family (The Skin of Our Teeth). They are distinctive enough to prove a good example of multi-dimensional experience of time and all mechanisms that are working in it.
             The Skin of Our Teeth has a complex structure that is difficult to describe in a conventional way. That is why it will be summarized as it appears in the text and all necessary explanations will be provided throughout the work. The family consists of four members: Mr. & Mrs. Antrobus, two children, Gladys and Henry and Sabina - a maid. The first act opens with the Antrobus family's daily duties. These are just prosaic and trivial things. They have a meal together (with a dinosaur on their lawn); they meet a group of guests (for example: Homer, Moses and Muses) and they drink coffee (afraid of the incoming glacier). The next act takes place in Atlantic City where the family celebrates their 5th wedding anniversary. Sabina wants to seduce Mr. Antrobus and is stopped by the cataclysm - great flood. The last act is set after a global war. The family is restored again apart from Henry who proves to undergo a great negative change.
             Our Town is structurally less complicated. The story describes lives of two resembling each other families - the Gibbs and the Webbs. They are common people who are, also, preoccupied with such prosaic daily duties like bringing-up childre...