Shedding a Skin

On the 15th floor of a London tower block, a revolution takes place. Myah has ejected herself from a corporate hellscape only to crash-land in the spare room of an elder named Mildred—an evasive auntie with laminated house rules and hidden wounds. But healing takes many shapes, and sometimes it looks like sneaking your roommate’s duckanoo.

Shedding a Skin is a one-woman buddy comedy for the heartbroken—a series of exquisitely observed, quietly radical scenes that offers a hand to those feeling the weight of the world. It’s a play about finding kindness in unexpected places; about understanding what our elders can teach us; it’s new skin honouring old. It’s a play about joy, healing and protest. Drop your baggage at the door. Connection is resistance.

Amanda Wilkin’s Shedding a Skin is the 2020 winner of Soho Theatre’s acclaimed Verity Bargate Award. The play premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in June 2021.

Previews
April 22 + 23 7:30PM

Opening Night
April 24 

Show Run
April 24 – May 4
Tue – Fri 7:30PM
Sat 2PM + 7:30PM

Mask Mandatory Performances
Wednesday, April 23 // 7:30PM
Tuesday, April 29 // 7:30PM

Relaxed Performances
Saturday, April 26 // 2PM
Saturday, May 3 // 2PM

Black Out Night 
Friday, April 25 // 7:30PM

About Nightwood Theatre

Nightwood Theatre is Canada’s preeminent feminist theatre. Nightwood cultivates, creates, and produces extraordinary theatre by women and gender-expansive artists, liberating futures, one room at a time. Founded in 1979, Nightwood Theatre has created, produced and toured award-winning plays that have garnered Dora Mavor Moore, Chalmers, Trillium and Governor General’s awards. The company is helmed by Artistic Director Andrea Donaldson and Managing Director Naz Afsahi, whose leadership has received public acclaim for artistic excellence, the successful training and development of emerging female talent, and their on-going advocacy around gender equity.

photography by Kristen Sawatzky, treatment by Fran Chudnoff